Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
Anything anyone wants to tell me about better slicker more elegant ways of doing the same things would be awesome. I'm attaching the lilypond file for Let Him Roll, a Guy Clark talking blues. He essential plays the same thing over and over. What I've got covers the main two variations. I

Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 04/23/2011 02:03 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: ...elision by Patrick... You'll see my attempt to put H at appropriate places doesn't work. Apparently a TabStaff is missing whatever engraver would put them in? I can put them in the regular staff, and it works, tucking them under the Chords,

Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 02.36 -0700, Patrick Horgan ha scritto: I figured it out. It was the Text_engraver I needed. So I'm attaching a new version that has H in the appropriate place. Please let me know if there are better/more elegant ways of doing the things I do here. New

Re: RhythmicStaff vs. repeat bar-aligned markup

2011-04-23 Thread Phil Holmes
LilyPond normally only places Rehearsal Marks above the top staff. To get rid of marks altogether, add this to the top of your code: \layout { \context { \Score \remove Mark_engraver \remove Staff_collecting_engraver } } Then add \consists Mark_engraver

PDFs no longer created: error: -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4

2011-04-23 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
Lilypond .ly files that created .pdf files just fine a few weeks ago no longer work. I get the messages: Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `song01.ps'... Converting to

Re: PDFs no longer created: error: -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4

2011-04-23 Thread Ivan Kuznetsov
I see from the logs that I updated ghostscript on April 20. Might this be the culprit? On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: Lilypond .ly files that created .pdf files just fine a few weeks ago no longer work. I get the messages: [...]

Re: [tablatures] Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 04/23/2011 02:50 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 02.36 -0700, Patrick Horgan ha scritto: I figured it out. It was the Text_engraver I needed. So I'm attaching a new version that has H in the appropriate place. Please let me know if there are better/more elegant

Re: [tablatures] Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: I have separately and previously contacted his management company to see what they think of me sharing the tab online along with the tabs of dozens of other songs of his out there, but I haven't heard anything back from

Re: RhythmicStaff vs. repeat bar-aligned markup

2011-04-23 Thread Richard Opheim
Wow. Couldn't even find that in the command index. But it worked just as you said. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: LilyPond normally only places Rehearsal Marks above the top staff. To get rid of marks altogether, add this to the top of your code: