This is perfect, thanks so much for your responses everybody.
-William
On 5/19/24 10:56, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Knute,
There are ways to "disable the padding" (a.k.a. have the spacing engine
ignore the TextScript). However, it might be just as easy — or maybe
even easier? — to simply
Dear list,
In the following example, I use a section label and a TextScript on a
note. I offset the markup text so that it appears inside the staff, but
it still makes the section text higher up. I would like to know if it is
possible to disable this padding around the TextScript, so that the
Dear Peter,
Assuming you wrote something like
% -
\version "2.25.7"
\score {
c'4
\midi {}
}
% -
and then ran lilypond --PNG midi.ly, then there would be no PNG output.
This is because if you only include the \midi block, then lilypond
produces no visual output at all. But if you
Dear Dirck,
There is a very easy way! You can simply do
\version "2.25.7"
\relative c' 4
-William
On 5/6/24 22:44, Dirck Nagy wrote:
Hi all
Does Lilypond have an easy way to display unisons on one stem? (it is
fairly common in guitar music; same note played on 2 strings
simultaneously)
Dear David,
You have to make the whole title a markup, in other words
title = \markup { 539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \smallCaps BC }
-William
On 4/26/24 18:49, David Olson wrote:
Thanks for drawing my attention to \markup
Does \markup also work in the header?
If I'm giving a
I don't know what you mean by highlighting. But you can override
properties of text in lyrics like this:
-William
% --
\version "2.25.7"
\relative c' {
c4 c
} \addlyrics {
Hello \once\override LyricText.color = #red world
}
On 4/23/24 23:18, Walt North wrote:
I have found how to
Dear Steve,
I think the reason for this is hinted at by the cryptic "5/8" in the
barcheck failure message. The "mine" at the end of the first measure
extends all the way until the next note ("I"), which is not at the
beginning of a bar, causing the barcheck to fail. If you try the
following
Dear Xavier,
I think this is called "void notation". I write it in the following way
(including an example of how to write whole notes), but it is very
time-consuming, and perhaps someone else has an easier way to
automatically write music like this.
Thanks,
-William
%
\version
Dear Joop,
Use \tweak color #red , like so
\version "2.25.6"
\relative c
{
f'2( g4.)
<< { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a }
{ \tweak color #red
g8 | d4 d4 e16 f
}
>>
a8 r4
}
Thanks,
-William
On 3/18/24 12:41, Go77 wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying
Dear Ralph,
I think this replicates how the original score looks:
\version "2.25.7"
\relative b {
\clef alto
\time 4/4
\tuplet 6/4 { b2.:8 } c4.*2/3:8 d4.*2/3:8 | c2.*2/3:8 b4.*2/3:8 a4.*2/3:8
}
-William
On 3/6/24 21:53, Ralph Palmer wrote:
Hi -
Thanks for all your work and for your
Dear list,
I am wondering if there is a way to omit footnotes and the text that
accompanies them from a score. the reason for this is I am making a
critical edition of a baroque trio sonata from a manuscript, and would
like to use footnotes for editorial changes in the full score and not
Dear George,
I put the following in a style-sheet which I import into every lilypond
file:
\context {
\Voice
\override Tie.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
\override Tie.minimum-length = #4
\override Tie.minimum-length-after-break = #4
}
It shouldn't
Dear Mark,
I did this in a slightly different way...if you do
\displayMusic c4\rest
you can see how to represent a rest using the make-music procedure in
scheme code. Modifying that a bit, I got
%
\version "2.25.6"
%\displayMusic c4\rest =
%(make-music
%'RestEvent
Dear Robert,
in the future, please take care that the minimal working example does
not contain any undefined symbols that cause errors. Here, simply adding
"strike = \fermata" at the beginning of the file alleviated all these
errors, however.
After using convert-ly and rendering (using
yes, it is a known bug due to a ghostscript security patch. Try using
the pre-built binary for lilypond instead of homebrew.
-William
On 11/15/23 01:13, Ernie Braganza wrote:
I just updated my Mac using Homebrew and I now get this error when I run
lilypond. It compiles fine if I create a
I see, thanks for the update.
I found a solution to this problem here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lilypond/comments/vozo9z/comment/ieibg4j/ does
this do what you were hoping for?
-William
Pasted below in-case this link goes away...
\version "2.25.7"
\score {
\new PianoStaff
<<
Dear Johannes,
If you change "ufermata" to "dfermata" and insert "\tweak direction
#DOWN" before "\mark" that should get you what you want.
Thanks,
-William
\version "2.24.0"
\relative c' {
e1 \break \once \override Score.RehearsalMark.break-visibility =
#end-of-line-visible \tweak
I don't know, but what I meant to say is that this use of \tuplet
outside of \voices or a split into multiple voices seems to me to be
"undefined behavior" ("unspecified"?).
-William
On 10/16/23 19:09, David Kastrup wrote:
William Rehwinkel writes:
Dear David,
This seems like an
Dear David,
This seems like an improper/unintended use of \tuplet. I would have used
\scaleDurations instead.
However, if you slightly modify the mwe as shown below, the tuplet
bracket is shown.
Thanks,
-William
\version "2.25.7"
\new Staff {
\key c \minor
< es' g' > < bes' d''~ >2.
See
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/setting-automatic-beam-behavior
In engraving from the Romantic and Classical periods, beams often begin
midway through the measure in 3/4 time, but modern practice is to avoid
the false impression of 6/8 time (see Gould, p. 153).
Dear Knute,
Searching `lilypond "tagline"` on google I found
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/creating-titles-headers-and-footers
where it is stated "The default LilyPond footer text can be changed by
adding a tagline in the top-level \header block." (it seems this is
Dear Kevin,
I use "\sectionLabel"s for this.
*\version "2.25.6"**
**\language "english"**
**melody = \relative c' {**
** \time 6/8**
** \key d \major**
** \clef treble**
** \sectionLabel \markup{ \box \pad-markup #0.5 "A" }**
** d8[ e8**
**e8] g8[ a8 b8] |**
** \break**
**
What PDF did you find this in?
-William
On 8/16/23 12:50, Jin Choi wrote:
I came across a PDF describing updates to \shape that let you use head centered
coordinates and polar coordinates that would make this easier. But my 2.24.0
version of lilypond doesn’t seem to include \shapeII. What is
It should be noted that on 2.25.7 this doesn't happen on my machine, and
the beam renders correctly (after running convert-ly on your snippet, it
didn't change anything).
-William
On 8/15/23 18:11, Jin Choi wrote:
I have a section of piano music where two voices start in the treble clef and
Dear Jin,
You can write 4\rest instead of r4 to specify what "pitch"
(vertical position) the rest should appear at. You should write the note
that is the middle line of the staff for it to appear like a \oneVoice
rest. So
\version "2.25.6"
upper = \relative c'' {
\new Voice {
Dear Jin,
Depending on what type of music it is, you can also do this:
-William
\version "2.25.7"
\relative c' {
c4 d e f g a b c | c \set Timing.measureBarType = "" b a g f e d c |
c \set Timing.measureBarType = "|" d e f g a b c
}
On 8/10/23 11:36, Jin Choi wrote:
I have a section of
Dear Jin,
In the future, it will be helpful to include a minimum working example,
so we can get a better idea of what step you are at, and what exactly
the problem is, so we can modify the code more directly.
For writing cross-staff beams, you can use \voiceOne when the notes go
to the
Dear Knute,
Substituting the following for the score context may result in more of
what you are looking for.
\context {
\Score
\remove Timing_translator
\override SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t
}
% ...
}
However, it will probably not be ideal to have the
Dear list,
I am having trouble finding the source code which displays the glyphs
timesig.C44 and C22 in place of 4/4 and 2/2 time signatures.
The reason is I would like to override this so that timesig.C22 displays
on 4/2 time signature for early music which uses the /brevetactus/. I
know
Dear Lydia,
Sorry, I'm not sure what you want to do to change the spacing. If I add
"ragged-right = ##t" inside the \paper block, we can see that the first
system takes up much less horizontal space than the other systems when
you ignore the stretching out to fill the whole line. What were
Dear John,
You need to add another pound sign before the list.
StrokeFinger.digit-names is a vector, with is a guile-specific construct
not a standard list. This is entered by adding a pound sign, so
confusingly we need the lilypond pound sign and the guile pound sign (of
course this is
Dear list,
I have been using the line
#(ly:set-option 'embed-source-code #t)
to embed the lilypond files I used in the PDF, but was wondering if
there was a procedure I could call to embed some other file, such as a
PDF of the source I used for the transcription? Sorry, looking through
the
Hello Donna,
macOS user here, what I do is download and unpack
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.24.1/downloads/lilypond-2.24.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
into my home directory at for example ~/lilypond-2.24.1/ , then symlink
that directory to ~/lilypond/ , and add
export
My apologies for double-posting...after writing I looked some more and
found that you can use *\char ##x* to enter unicode characters in a
markup block as in here
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/unicode
On 5/20/23 23:24, William Rehwinkel via LilyPond user discussion
Dear Greg,
For the umlaut, as long as you enter the character with umlaut into the
file, it should work. for Example, on vim I type -K, then colon
(:), then "o", and it enters ö.
For the second question, I found
https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=1008 (also attached to this
email) but
Dear Jakob,
It must be a nice /piece d'orgue/ ;) (this has lost some of its comedic
value as others have already answered)
I can think of two solutions to this problem.
1. You can override NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(left . right). For
example, #'(-4 . 0)
so:
% ---
leftOne =
Dear Joel,
I think that using multiple bookparts is a perfect strategy for this
document based on this example, in which each score should nicely start
on a new page.
Without any minimal examples, it is hard to determine what exactly is
causing the bad page-breaking results, maybe you are
Dear Vlad,
Inserting ^~ and _~ to the individual notes in the chord should work
nicely, Like so.
Thanks,
-William
\version "2.25.2"
\relative {
\clef treble
\key c \major
\time 4/4
<<
\new Voice = voiceOne \relative {
\voiceOne
4 8
}
\new Voice = voiceTwo
Dear list,
I use the following stencil (which is derived the bracketify-stencil
procedure from lilypond) to draw editorial brackets around rests.
The output looks very nice and more preferable for my use than using
\parenthesize (mainly because it changes in size for quarter note
rests).
Dear JD,
I'm not sure I can help much but will just write two things that come to
mind.
Did you double check that the path /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond
exists, and is not just a slightly different path? When I install
lilypond from
Dear Jaime,
Try using `\once \hideNotes r` and before that include
\once \override Rest.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 50)
Or another value, depending on how much space. As in the following example.
I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what you are looking for, could
you hook up a minimum
Dear Jaime,
If you mean silent rests such as s4, s8 etc. I thought those do not
actually take up any space, and are analogous to using \skip for that
duration. As in the following example:
\version "2.24.1"
<<
\new Staff {
c'1 c'1
}
\new Staff {
\repeat unfold 128 { s128 }
}
Dear Dario,
Personally, I think adding the `lilypond-2.24.1/bin` directory to $PATH
is the best way to handle this, whether you placed lilypond-2.24.1 in
the user's home directory or somewhere else.
-William
On 3/24/23 17:41, Dario Marrini wrote:
Hi lilypond people,
I'm using a LinuxMint
Dear all,
Something like the following example might be helpful to include in the
documentation, as it explains which of the staves \crossStaff should be
applied to.
-Will
% --
\version "2.24.1"
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = "right" {
\voiceTwo \crossStaff {
Dear Mark,
I found that the error was applying "\crossStaff" to the lower notes
instead of the higher ones, applying them to the upper notes (whos stems
will extend further below the stem) seems to have fixed the issue.
Thanks,
-William
On 3/22/23 20:24, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
Jean,
Hey Kevin,
I found that the command to disable all logic for finding melismas
(manual beams when \autoBeamOff, slurs, etc.) is *melismaBusyProperties
= #'()* . Refer to the attached example which sets it in a \context
block. In the *words* macro I entered the lyrics in a few different
ways,
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