Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

2021-01-05 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Kieren" == Kieren MacMillan writes: >> What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width: >> \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t >> \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0) Kieren> Why not Kieren> \omit BarLine Kieren> ??

Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

2021-01-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "J" == J Stasko writes: J> I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the bar-engraver, J> which I turned off for chant music, is responsible for engraving the J> repeats: when I turn it back on, then the repeats appear, but since the J> music is chant, it runs

Re: Syntax for ligature brackets

2020-07-23 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Bannister writes: Robin> 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 liga

Syntax for ligature brackets

2020-07-23 Thread Laura Conrad
All the other features that join two or more notes start after the first note, e.g. a slur is: a( b) and a beam is: a[b] But a ligature bracket is: \[a b\] 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

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Andrew" == Andrew Bernard writes: Andrew> I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I Andrew> can't imagine there is any user base using it in earnest, or Andrew> even at all, else there would be lots of complaints. Or Andrew> perhaps I was doing something

Re: Photoscore

2016-11-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jacques" == Jacques Menu Muzhic writes: Jacques> Oups, totally forgot I had tested it two years ago, my Jacques> fault. So use a different email to get another free trial. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org)

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> What it does do is trying to track the current "tonality". David> That's an interesting idea but requires an editing mode that David> will _propagate_ corrections in order to work nicely. Of David> course, the same will

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-19 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: Simon> On 19.10.2015 18:01, Laura Conrad wrote: >> The problem is >> when entering long note values, which are common in early 16th century >> music, I have to l

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Huh. I just committed midi-kbd.el to ELPA, the official David> Emacs package archive. That sounded like it would be something I wanted to try, so I listed the packages available and went to install it. But it said it depended

Re: point-and-click from PDF viewer to lilypond editor

2015-06-08 Thread Laura Conrad
Federico == Federico Bruni f...@inventati.org writes: Federico Does anybody here use point-and-click from an external PDF viewer Federico (either Evince or Xpdf) to the lilypond editor? I've been using point-and-click between Xpdf and emacs for years. I've thought of switching to

Re: converting an old finale file

2015-05-04 Thread Laura Conrad
Stefan == Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com writes: Stefan I have 2 very old finale-filee of two of my pieces and I'm Stefan searching for someone, who could convert it to musicxml. Is Stefan there someone around, who could do it for me? Finale does give you a free trial.

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer David I arrived at for myself was don't bother. The tools are David not good enough right now to save time. For me, MIDI input does save time. I cheat and use the numeric

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-07 Thread Laura Conrad
Matthew == Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: Matthew shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the Matthew numbers though (outside the left of the staff). I don't. Is there a workaround? Matthew As I said in a message posted very shortly after the

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Matthew == Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: Matthew On 27/01/2012, at 6:27 am, Matie Holtzhausen wrote: \set Staff.vocalName \set Staff.shortVocalName similar to instrumentName Thanks, but I was hoping to use multiple verses in the same staff:

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Mark == Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net writes: Mark Thanks for prompting me to update this. Gnome 3 no longer uses the Mark gconf key, it's now actually a little easier. I've put the info and Mark necessary files here: Mark https://github.com/markk/textedit-ly Mark Let me know

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Stjepan == Stjepan Horvat zvanste...@gmail.com writes: Stjepan you can make log file with touch ~/textedit_url.log . Stjepan and your textedit-url.sh has to be in your $PATH.. It is. I touched the log file, and it now exists, but is empty, even after running evince and getting the red

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Stjepan == Stjepan Horvat zvanste...@gmail.com writes: Stjepan did you put the put the textedit-url.sh in your $PATH.. Stjepan sudo cp ./textedit-url.sh /usr/bin/ Stjepan sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/textedit-url.sh $ ls -l ~/bin/textedit-url.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 lconrad lconrad 1385 Oct 9

xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager problem. (If anyone tells you ubuntu has 32-bit executables installing seamlessly on a 64-bit system, they haven't tested it much.) But if someone knows

Re: xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager problem. (If anyone tells you ubuntu has

How to print a timesig.C22 character in the context of a grob

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
I have managed to modify the compound time snippet to print a neomensural time signature like C3. Now I want one with the 2/2 C style instead of the 4/4 style. My code (don't laugh too hard, I just fiddled until it worked) looks like: settime = { #(define ((compound-time one two num) grob)

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-30 Thread Laura Conrad
pabuhr == pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm writes: pabuhr I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates pabuhr a file that is unusable (go figure), and convert generates pabuhr a low quality image (maybe one of the many parameters can pabuhr fix this). convert -density'

Re: Sibelius and LilyPond parallels

2012-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David I found it interesting that its text input form does not even David enter this story. I find that quite often this is what makes David a major difference to people (meaning that it is an important David factor for either

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Jakub == Jakub Pavlík jkb.pav...@gmail.com writes: Jakub Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale Jakub directly... You used to be able to. Have you done it with a recent lilypond version? I think the method that's encouraged for people with recent finale and recent

Re: Ambitus after incipit

2012-02-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Bockett == Bockett Hunter bockett1.hun...@gmail.com writes: Bockett What I would like is to have the voice range displayed  Bockett after the incipit and before the modern clef, in the modern Bockett clef, Nothing I've tried works; I would appreciate help. I kept having problems

Re: How is Lily counting measures

2012-01-06 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: From the manual: David Upbeats David ... David Partial or pick-up measures, such as an anacrusis or upbeat, are David entered using the `\partial' command, with the syntax David \partial DURATION

How is Lily counting measures

2012-01-03 Thread Laura Conrad
I believe that the attached file contains one partial and three full measures, with measures ending on the barchecks. Lily seems to disagree. She says: lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.15.23 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... test.ly:11:13: warning: barcheck failed at: -1/2

brackets for coloration

2011-08-08 Thread Laura Conrad
When I transcribe facsimiles that use colored notes (they look like a whole note or a breve, but they're filled in), I've been transcribing my guess at how the notes translate into modern notation, and footnoting the fact that they're colored. A friend recently pointed out that there's a

Re: brackets for coloration

2011-08-08 Thread Laura Conrad
harm == harm6 thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: harm Laura Conrad wrote: So it looks similar to an ligature bracket, but doesn't have the line between the begin and the end. harm do you mean something like this? Maybe something like that. That particular something

Re: brackets for coloration

2011-08-08 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: So it looks similar to an ligature bracket, but doesn't have the line between the begin and the end. harm do you mean something like this? Laura Maybe something like that. That particular something doesn't Laura

Help understanding print problem

2011-07-19 Thread Laura Conrad
My guess is that this is not a lilypond bug, but there might be someone here who could shed light on how to report it, or better ways to work around it. I have a PDF file http://serpentpublications.org/music/dewilde/amours/allparts.pdf, produced by lilypond-book with parts and score for a piece.

More alternate ending problems

2011-06-02 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm working on trying to make alternate endings readable in unbarred parts. There's probably a bug report I should file, because they are quite often ambiguous. I'm attaching the file I'm working on -- before I file the report I'll create a simpler test file, but you can see what I mean.

Re: More alternate ending problems

2011-06-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: LauraFailing that, is there a tweak I can use to enlarge the Lauraspace left for an empty bar? (This would actually be Laurauseful for something else I'm doing.) Got it. Instead of an empty barline, what I want

Re: Polymetric music and page breaks

2011-05-30 Thread Laura Conrad
Andrea == Andrea La Rose andrea.lar...@gmail.com writes: Andrea Thanks for responding. Do keep in mind that this is only an Andrea excerpt of a 40 minute piece. I excerpted enough so that the Andrea problem would be apparent. So I realize that everything in Andrea the excerpt is

How to put a horizontal space with no time value?

2011-05-13 Thread Laura Conrad
I have been reading the fine manual, and see lots of things I could try. It's likely some of them would work, but it's also likely someone has already tried even more things than I see right now, and come to some conclusions about what works best. I'm transcribing some 16th century diminutions

Re: barAlways, slurs (melisma)

2011-05-07 Thread Laura Conrad
Germain == Germain G Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty ggit@gmail.com writes: Germain Besides this, placing automatic invisible bars in all Germain *relevant* places (for automatic line breaks, in different Germain layouts) is typically a kind of computer task ! By the way, Germain what

Re: Lilypond with Cubase/DAW for Musical

2011-04-13 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: Phil I do something similar using Phil Noteworthy. (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/) I notate Phil using Noteworthy, export using its text format and then use a Phil self-written program to convert to LilyPond. The single piece

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Pete == PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: Pete The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, Pete it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000. Am sniffing out Pete reputable vendors. I would recommend against this. I did that, after the kind of exploration you

Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Back in the olden days, lilypond-book only set the music, and left the titling to the publishing program. I produced a book of Drinking Songs in LaTeX, with the titles in hge, an Old English font derived from the Hershey font. I now want to do an updated version of this book. I would like the

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Henning == Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Henning Am 2011-04-09 um 17:32 schrieb Laura Conrad: 1. How to tell lilypond how to use a particular font for titles. Henning \header{ Henning title = \markup{\override #'(font-name . Old English) Your Title} Thanks

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura This is on lilypond 2.13.58. On 2.12.3, it seems to work Laura fine. I guess I should report this to bugs. I take it back. 2.12.13 has different bugs. It works fine with Georgia, but doesn't seem to see the fonts I installed

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: Laura ghostscript says: Laura `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 Laura -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 Laura -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite Laura -sOutputFile=./five.pdf -c.setpdfwrite

Re: volta bracket too short

2011-03-23 Thread Laura Conrad
Nick == Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: Nick On 22/03/11 03:51, Laura Conrad wrote: I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled Final. This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For two of the five parts, the spacing on the last

volta bracket too short

2011-03-21 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled Final. This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For two of the five parts, the spacing on the last line of the part is tight enough that there isn't room under the volta bracket for the whole word Final. Does anyone have

Re: volta bracket too short

2011-03-21 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: I'm trying to write a piece with an alternative ending labeled Final. This bracket is over a whole note for all parts. For two of the five parts, the spacing on the last line of the part is tight enough that

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 8 March 2011 18:05, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Does anyone know a way to tell lily that an empty barline shouldn't have space, but there should still be some space around the barlines that are being printed

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 9 March 2011 16:02, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Unfortunately, it creates a new one.  In some cases, such as the attached small example, when I use this BarType I get a lot of errors: programming error

How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-08 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm attempting to print out my Holborne parts http://serpentpublications.org/wordpress/?page_id=22id=61 with something more like 17th century spacing and less like 19th century spacing. A recipe for this that I got a year or so ago http://osdir.com/ml/lilypond-user-gnu/2009-05/msg00256.html

Re: Converting .nwc files to .ly

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Michael == Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com writes: Michael How do I take a nwc (under wine) file convert it to a ly Michael file? I know there's an nwc2abc program somewhere that might be some use. I personally just re-transcribe NWC files. -- Laura

Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to produce something that looks like that in lilypond. I'm attaching a scan.

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray Laura facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either Laura what it means (so that I could translate it into an Laura equivalent modern articulation

Re: Baroque Articulation mark

2011-01-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: I'm transcribing a flute sonata from an eighteenth centuray facsimile, and there's a decoration that I don't know either what it means (so that I could translate it into an equivalent modern articulation mark), or how to

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-14 Thread Laura Conrad
Michael == Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com writes: Michael Any suggestions for how to write the \withLyrics function? Michael Or is there an existing clean solution I haven't found yet? I always used to wish for that, and then I figured out how to use point-and-click and I don't

Re: musescore

2010-12-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Ed == Ed Ardzinski ed_ardzin...@hotmail.com writes: Ed Does anyone have an opinion if it's a good manuscript program? Ed Not that I am interested in stopping my use of Lilypond... I've been using it to import capella files (from the web -- it's the Holborne dances on the Werner Icking

Re: Emacs lily mode

2010-07-19 Thread Laura Conrad
Tim == Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Tim Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great. Tim Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already Tim and it's pretty useful to me- Me, too. Tim but of course

Re: Emacs lily mode

2010-07-19 Thread Laura Conrad
Nicolas == Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr writes: Nicolas Le 15 juil. 2010 à 16:06, Tim McNamara a écrit : What are you thinking that you'd like to see? Nicolas - quick note entry, with instant audio feedback. I second this. I'm using my USB MIDI keyboard to enter notes,

Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

2010-06-22 Thread Laura Conrad
Patrick == Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de writes: Patrick 1) If you manage to open the .ly-file with MuseScore you can export to Patrick MusicXML and then import the .xml-file with Finale. MuseScore is a good program, but if that doesn't work, there are several other GUI programs

Re: master file in emacs lilypond mode

2010-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
moboyle79 == moboyle79 moboyl...@hotmail.com writes: moboyle79 At the bottom of the file being edited, put moboyle79 %%% Local Variables: moboyle79 %%% LilyPond-master-file: SomeMasterFileName.ly moboyle79 %%% End: Thanks, this works, and is exactly what I wanted to know.

flag on mensural custos

2010-02-16 Thread Laura Conrad
I was explaining to someone what a custos was and what it looked like, and I realized that I have no idea why the flag on the mensural custos I use goes up sometimes and down other times. Reading the documentation

Re: Lilypond and Wordpress

2009-10-26 Thread Laura Conrad
Jonathan == Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com writes: Jonathan Does anyone have some experience using Jonathan lilypond-book together with wordpress? I'd like to make Jonathan a blog entry in html, then run lilypond-book on it and Jonathan upload it to the webserver as a

Re: Lilypond and Wordpress

2009-10-26 Thread Laura Conrad
Jonathan == Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com writes: Jonathan The problem I'm having is that when I run lilypond-book, Jonathan it makes a relative link for images, and it seems like Jonathan on the web server I need to give a full url for images; Jonathan currently I can't get

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-07 Thread Laura Conrad
Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: I've made some efforts to transcribe the tablature, but what I want ideally is to transcribe what's there, in an input form that doesnt' require me to translate the tablature into notes, and then use that transcription plus the tuning

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Marc I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc reasons, these should be made possible with lilypond. Actually, there are good musical reasons, too. In

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Laura Conrad
Trevor == Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Trevor Fronimo uses its own custom fonts for this style. Trevor They are licensed with the phrase: Trevor The fonts coming with Fronimo are given for Trevor free, but their use is restricted to non Trevor commercial

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

2009-09-30 Thread Laura Conrad
Joerg == Joerg Anders j...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes: The version I saved hadn't spelled the flats right, either, but I think I might have fixed that later. Joerg Could you please tell us what is misspelled ? Is it really Joerg the bes instead Bb ?

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

2009-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
Martin == Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: NtEd has such a --key=... option implicitely! I can't see any problem here. Martin Yes, NtEd does a pretty good job. I didn't find that with my sample -- it was the only one of the programs that didn't split the voices

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond (from NtEd developer)

2009-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
Joerg == Joerg Anders j...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes: Joerg On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Laura Conrad wrote: I didn't find that with my sample -- it was the only one of the programs that didn't split the voices out correctly. There should be 5 separate voices, and nted created

Re: finale-lilypond?

2009-09-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Frédéric == Frédéric Bron frederic.b...@m4x.org writes: Frédéric A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him Frédéric to lilypond. What is the best way to convert a score Frédéric from Finale to Lilypond? Regards, What *ought* to be the best way is to have Finale save

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

2009-09-26 Thread Laura Conrad
lasconic == lasconic lasco...@gmail.com writes: lasconic Out of curiosity, which software packages did you try? midi2ly, midi2abc, noteflight, nted. These all had spelling errors. I just tried rosegarden, which exports lilypond directly. It looks pretty good, and may be tweakable to be

another route from MIDI to lilypond

2009-09-25 Thread Laura Conrad
I was frustrated only this week by the problems of getting a MIDI file into lilypond via midi2ly, so when I got a newsletter from Noteflight http://www.noteflight.com/ saying that they now have MIDI import, I did a quick test. It turns out to be fairly simple to import the MIDI file into

Re: another route from MIDI to lilypond

2009-09-25 Thread Laura Conrad
Villum == Villum Sejersen v...@privat.tdcadsl.dk writes: Villum Both of you ought to take a look at Jöerg Anders' NtED, Villum which to my experience has good import/export Villum facilities. Both the application and the source code (C++) Villum look very impressive to me. A

Re: some problems with mensural music

2009-08-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Denis == Denis Roegel denis.roe...@loria.fr writes: Denis 2) the ligrature \[g1( f)\] comes out with a slur, but I Denis would like to avoid the slur; however, if I remove Denis (...), the synchronization of the lyrics is screwed up Denis ; how can I put one

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-18 Thread Laura Conrad
Carl == Carl D Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: Carl Does this seem at all promising? Yes, but there's still the problem of extra space at the barline. I tried Michael's solutions and doing nothing at all and there's still extra space after the 4th whole note.

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-06-18 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Carl How about this? Carl \relative c'' { Carl \key f \major Carl \cadenzaOn Carl g1*1/4 bes1*1/4 a1*1/4 g1*1/4 g1.*1/6 c4 bes4 c1*1/4 Carl } Carl I think that gets rid of the extra space. Laura Yes, it does

Preview?

2009-06-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Back in the olden days (lilypond 2.0 or so) there used to be a command line option --preview which would produce a .png file of the first line of the piece. It seems to have been removed, and I'd like to have something like that for the new website. I could probably write a script that would

Re: Preview?

2009-06-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Francisco == Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: Francisco does not Francisco lilypond -dpreview file.ly Francisco work for you? Thanks. Francisco it is listed in Francisco

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-24 Thread Laura Conrad
Michael == Michael Lauer mrlau...@yahoo.com writes: Michael Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org writes: But when I transcribe Petrucci from the facsimile, the spacing lilypond does always looks clunky, especially in the parts with large note-values. I

Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-13 Thread Laura Conrad
In general, I love the way lilypond output looks when compared with other computer-generated sheetmusic. I'm aware that the ideal espoused by the developers is the 19th century hand-engraved sheet music. I usually like the look of my lilypond output as compared with the late sixteenth and early

Re: Aligning a D.S. al Fine at the end of a piece.

2009-05-13 Thread Laura Conrad
Tim == Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com writes: Tim 2009/5/13 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: So TextScript has a default #'font-size value of 0, the score's normal size. So it *should* [warning: untested] work to just set the RehearsalMark #'font-size = #0.

Re: Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their score in Mutopia?

2009-04-16 Thread Laura Conrad
Hajo == Hajo Dezelski dl1...@googlemail.com writes: Hajo So my questions: Hajo - Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their Hajo score in Mutopia? I average at least one piece a week, and I sometimes get behind just the overhead to put my work up on my own site, let

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Kees == Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes: Kees I would also prefer \unfoldRepeats to be the default. I Kees frequently use the midi as practice material for the Kees musicians. It's also good to have the repeats in the midi Kees for listening checks to make sure you

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
Andrew == Andrew Hawryluk ahawry...@gmail.com writes: Andrew The full report is at Andrew http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-4.html, but here's my Andrew conclusion: Andrew At least for me, MIDI entry is much faster than typing the pitches Andrew and durations

test files for musicxml

2009-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
There's a site called http://www.wikifonia.org that has a lot of lead sheets in both PDF and musicxml. The one I looked at first http://www.wikifonia.org/node/847 (Edith Piaf's _La vie en rose_) might show up some problems with the musicxml2ly import of both chords and lyrics. -- Laura

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
Mats == Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se writes: Mats I think we can agree that both LilyPond and Sibelius are Mats among the better options when it comes to typesetting Mats quality, right? Sibelius is certainly not one of the better options for establishing communication

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Reinhold == Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: Reinhold The musicians really liked the good look of the score. Reinhold The only problems appear when trying to create Reinhold good-looking full scores for the conductor (part Reinhold combining is unusable and

Re: Review of Valentin's Opera

2009-04-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Kieren == Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Kieren Then again, I *never* use \partcombine, and I manually Kieren tweak vertical spacing a fair bit, so that might be where Kieren you are running into problems with your scores. I've always assumed that with some

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Graham Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert Graham apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so Graham they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I might support that if we were

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Johan == Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Johan Yes, it would be very nice to have one good export format Johan and a good importer. But Sibelius does not produce MusicXML Johan without the help of an expensive plugin. As far as I can see, all notation products (including

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-23 Thread Laura Conrad
Matthew == Domain Admin m...@mjs-svc.com writes: Matthew If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius Matthew plug-in to export Lilypond data. Since it's a Sibelius plugin, that means those of us who mostly use Linux are out of luck. I do run into Sibelius files I'd like

Re: \remove has removed clefs-

2009-03-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Jay == Jay Hamilton jay...@linuxquestions.net writes: Jay version 2.10.25 Jay included in \context { \Staff Jay \remove Bar_engraver Jay \remove Time_signature_engraver Jay \override Stem #'transparent = ##t Jay this has the effect of removing all the clefs from

Re: \remove has removed clefs-

2009-03-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Jay == Jay Hamilton jay...@linuxquestions.net writes: Jay If you have the time could you point me to the section in the Jay docs where this additional bit is explained? I'll try it out Jay later this afternoon. I started doing this long before the docs had anything like their

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-16 Thread Laura Conrad
Tim == Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov writes: Tim Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: I guess you have several voices or even several staves involved in your piece. Note that the \repeat volta command should be inserted in all voices of music and also have to

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-03 Thread Laura Conrad
Stefan == Stefan Waler ste...@waler.at writes: Stefan lilypond provides one petrucci style f clef (called Stefan petrucci-f). Stefan Unfortunately, this is not really sufficient: similar to Stefan the C clefs, f clefs can be placed on various staff lines. Here's the way I get

Re: midi keyboard input

2009-01-02 Thread Laura Conrad
lasconic == lasconic lasco...@gmail.com writes: lasconic Laura Conrad wrote: The most obvious thing wrong with the note entry is that each measure has a comment % measure 1. If it had the actual measure number it would be useful. Actually it's easier than

Re: midi keyboard input

2009-01-02 Thread Laura Conrad
Nicolas == Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr writes: Nicolas Le 1 janv. 09 à 23:02, Laura Conrad a écrit : It looks like there are rumor-based solutions that might be closer to what I need. I was hoping someone would say, I'm entering notes into emacs via keyboard

Re: midi keyboard input

2009-01-01 Thread Laura Conrad
M == M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com writes: M Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) M from linux-sound.org is dead M http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ I can send you the code I'm using if you like, which I downloaded when I originally got the

Re: midi keyboard input

2009-01-01 Thread Laura Conrad
lasconic == lasconic lasco...@gmail.com writes: lasconic Another way is to use MuseScore : lasconic http://www.musescore.org Lilypond output is quite beta lasconic for the moment, but to get the pitches it should be ok I lasconic guess. That's actually easier than I expected.

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Laura Conrad
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola So, do you use a midi keyboard for score editing with Grammostola Lilypond? What is a cheap midi keyboard which works Grammostola well on Linux? I have an M-Audio Keystation 49B. It's a USB keyboard,

midi keyboard input

2008-12-30 Thread Laura Conrad
(This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.) I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand. I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I play on the MIDI keyboard. But if I have the notes set up

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-29 Thread Laura Conrad
Ralph == Ralph Palmer palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com writes: Ralph Does anyone have a recommendation or advice or reason(s) Ralph for going with Ralph 1) Ubuntu with Gnome; 2) Ubuntu and installing KDE; or 3) Ralph Kubuntu with KDE? I think you should decide whether you want to use

Re: musicxml2ly

2008-11-29 Thread Laura Conrad
Martin == Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin If we would have a good Lilypond-MusicXML conversion tool (or an Martin additional file export option inside Lilypond) we could convert the Martin complete Mutopia collection to MusicXML. That would sure make a nice

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