Re: multi measure rests

2013-05-03 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "lilly pond discuss discuss" Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 4:13:44 PM Subject: multi measure rests I read the docs on how to do this but is there an easier way to memorize how to do this? the fractions confuse the hec

multi measure rests

2013-05-03 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I read the docs on how to do this but is there an easier way to memorize how to do this? the fractions confuse the heck out of me lol! I'm in 12/8 so I'll have 4 doted quarter notes so would the multi measure rest look like this for one measure R4. R4. R4. R4. | for example? Thanks all. and so

Re: Multi measure rests vertical positioning

2013-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, > I must solve everything for R manually while r works fine. > Any ideas to solve that? Can you write a callback function to determine the position of the r and apply it to the R? Just a thought. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Multi measure rests vertical positioning

2013-01-14 Thread Werner
Hallo, I often used just r1 instead of R1 in 4/4 and 2/2 time. Now I thought, it would be good, to use the horizontally centered full-measure rests. BUT: I write two voices in one staff. For a while the lower voice plays quite high, the higher voice rests for some measures. The r1-rests are pr

Re: Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.10.2012 15:51, schrieb Helge Kruse: [...] This measure counter allows a start and a stop. I did not find an option to start at a specific number. Image you start at rehearsel mark H, have a multi-measure rest of 16 bars. In the 17th measure you have some cue notes. It would be nice to s

Re: Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-21 Thread Helge Kruse
2012/10/19 David Nalesnik > > to comment #21 at > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2445 . Understand > that this version might cause problems if you're running a batch of > files (which won't happen with the version that's in the review > process.) The engraver could be added to

Re: Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-19 Thread David Nalesnik
o make this >> tasks easier you can write numbers into rest measures. >> >> Especially for a piano staff it gives a calm picture when the empty space >> between the staves is used. The attached picture shows this starting at >> Allegretto. Further it would be good to have t

Re: Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-19 Thread Helge Kruse
f it gives a calm picture when the empty space > between the staves is used. The attached picture shows this starting at > Allegretto. Further it would be good to have the number of multi-measure > rests between the staves. > > How can I write _one_ multi measure rest number in piano

Multi-measure rests and counter in piano staff

2012-10-16 Thread Helge Kruse
rther it would be good to have the number of multi-measure rests between the staves. How can I write _one_ multi measure rest number in piano staff between the staff lines? How can I add a counter starting at a measure n and counting to measure n+x? This should not be the current bar number b

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
Thanks Neil, those are good tips. I'm a long time vim user so shortcuts are certainly a possibility. OTOH, I've recently found that JEdit + LilyPondTool makes a real difference in my productivity compared to vim + some helper scripts I had put together. I know JEdit has its own Java-based macro

Re: Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Thornock
I can't answer your question, but I have two responses to the dilemma. First, R2. is more compact than R1*3/4, and R1*2 is better than R1*8/4. Same with R4*5 vs R1*5/4. Also, if you happen to use Vim -- I keep all my time signatures in a separate file from the notes. It's then simple to map tim

Shorthand notation for multi-measure rests in music with frequent meter changes ?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Ellis
I'm currently transcribing parts from music with frequently changing meters and segments where a part is resting. The sequence below is typical.     \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 |     \time 4/4 R1*8/4 |  % 2 bars     \time 3/8 R1*3/8 | Does anyone know how to write a music function th

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-27 Thread rasAK
helps, but it's not quite on top of my priority queue > if you're fine with your current solution. > > > Cheers, > Alexander > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
rasAK wrote: I don't have time to look into this, but wanted you to be aware: I went ahead and used the BarNumberStaff rather than the BarNumberVoice. In trying to adjust the Y-Offset of the BarNumberVoice, it moves the lyrics down as well. The BarNumberStaff does not. Ah, I think I see the p

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-27 Thread rasAK
t certain you won't need them. > > > Cheers, > Alexander > > > > _______ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
me - stanford wrote: 2) Also, do you think #'outside-staff-priority = #150 is a reasonable priority setting for the MMR Text? I'm not sure what most objects' settings are for this property. I was just trying to get it to win over the Lyrics setting. Oh, and just a few words about this befor

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
rasAK wrote: Alexander, The only remaining issue is the positioning of the text that results from your function. It is currently being placed above the number (which is above the MMR). I tried to adjust some of the Y-offset and Y-extent numbers, but could only get the text to move up. I would

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-26 Thread rasAK
ttp://old.nabble.com/file/p27319831/Bach_Singet_dem_Herrn_04_choir_I_bassoon_pg_2.pdf Bach_Singet_dem_Herrn_04_choir_I_bassoon_pg_2.pdf Alexander Kobel wrote: > > rasAK wrote: >> In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both: >> (1) an integer repr

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-25 Thread rasAK
e the MMR). Something like the following: 6 |-| ( 121 - 126 ) Thoughts? Thanks, Randy Alexander Kobel wrote: > > rasAK wrote: >> In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both: >> (1) an integer representing the number of meas

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-23 Thread rasAK
Alexander, Thanks so much. I'll take a look at your suggestion in detail. Randy rasAK wrote: > > In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both: > (1) an integer representing the number of measures in the current MMR, > centered above (default

Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-23 Thread Alexander Kobel
rasAK wrote: In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both: (1) an integer representing the number of measures in the current MMR, centered above (default behavior) (2) a second text indicating which measures are included in the given MMR, in parentheses and centered

Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

2010-01-23 Thread rasAK
In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both: (1) an integer representing the number of measures in the current MMR, centered above (default behavior) (2) a second text indicating which measures are included in the given MMR, in parentheses and centered BELOW the MMR. (1

Re: Markup with multi-measure rests

2009-06-21 Thread David H
ut if the instrument has notes, these are spaced out unacceptably. See below. I can't use textLengthOn and Off in the 'tempos' voice, because some instruments will be playing at a particular point, while others will not be. Is there some way to have \textLengthOn apply only to

Multi-measure rests and \partcombine

2007-11-06 Thread Joris Grouwels
Hi, When several voices are combined on one staff with \partcombine, multi-measure rests in the first voice are only printed in the first measure of their span if voiceTwo contains skips. The following measures are empty. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? When voiceTwo contains rests

Re: Markup with multi-measure rests

2007-10-19 Thread Graham Percival
the first spacer note. /Mats Trevor Daniels wrote: In the following example of writing a typical part containing multi-measure rests, the annotation of the rests in 2.11.34 collides if more notes are added to fill the line (to simulate this, I've added ragged-right = ##t). This seems to

Re: Markup with multi-measure rests

2007-10-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To me it seems a bug that you get collisions in your first example. The second example can easily be modified to get what you want. Just add \fatText before the first spacer note. /Mats Trevor Daniels wrote: In the following example of writing a typical part containing multi-measure rests

Markup with multi-measure rests

2007-10-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
In the following example of writing a typical part containing multi-measure rests, the annotation of the rests in 2.11.34 collides if more notes are added to fill the line (to simulate this, I've added ragged-right = ##t). This seems to be a bug. The collisions can be avoided in 2.

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Added this to the doco: If you want to have a text on the left end of a multi-measure rest, attach the text to a zero-length skip note, i.e. @example s1*0^"Allegro" R1*4 @end example This makes the multime

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This makes the multimeasure excessively wide and actually steals space from a following MM rest. Ah, that seems to be a bug. I fixed it partially in 2.0 CVS. For the moment, you might want to put the "allegro" atop the 72 \mark. Excellent!

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > >Added this to the doco: > > > >If you want to have a text on the left end of a multi-measure rest, > >attach the text to a zero-length skip note, i.e. > > > >@example > > s1*0^"Allegro" > > R1*4 > >@end example > > > This makes the multim

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: (Lily 1.8.1 on Debian unstable) This makes the multimeasure excessively wide and actually steals space from a following MM rest. Paul \score { < \property Score.skipBars = ##t \context Staff = clar

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Added this to the doco: If you want to have a text on the left end of a multi-measure rest, attach the text to a zero-length skip note, i.e. @example s1*0^"Allegro" R1*4 @end example This makes the multimeasure excessively wide and actually steals space from a followi

RE: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
That's funky! Thanks, I'll give it a try! Ralph -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 10:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ralph Little; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multi-measure rests again again [EMAIL PROTECTED] write

RE: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, This is exactly the issue that I am having! Same goes for: R1*2_\markup{ Allegro } ..I guess. Regards, Ralph -Original Message- From: Paul Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 10:09 To: Ralph Little Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multi-measure rests

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
> > > >...or somesuch. > > > >I'm running 1.8.2 now. > >What's the recommended way of attaching text to multi-measure rests now? > >Is there a better way? > > > The answer should be R1*2^\markup{ Allegro } but the markup hides the > measure

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
t to multi-measure rests now? Is there a better way? The answer should be R1*2^\markup{ Allegro } but the markup hides the measure count. I am waiting for a comment on that problem. Paul Scott ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi Looking through the archives, there seems to be a lot of issues relating to attaching text markup to MultiMeasure rests. One general solutions seems to be along the lines of ...or somesuch. I'm running 1.8.2 now. What's the recommended way of attaching text to multi-mea

Re: text markup for long multi-measure rests

2003-03-29 Thread John Williams
this, if anyone is interested.) < R1*18 s_"Allegro" > So I wonder why the effort to add textscripts to multi-measures rests if they only work with single-measure multi-measure rests, and the < R s > workaround already provides more (although somewhat flawed) funtion

Re: text markup for long multi-measure rests

2003-03-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:13:17 -0700 (MST) John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to I attach text markup to long multi-measure rests? You do a quick search in the mailist archives, at: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ and find this thread: http://mail.gnu.org/arc

text markup for long multi-measure rests

2003-03-29 Thread John Williams
How to I attach text markup to long multi-measure rests? I've looked at multi-measure-rest-text.ly, but it only contains examples for *single-measure* multi-measure rests. I want to do something like this: \property Score.skipBars = ##t R2.*20_"Tacet" Perhaps some

Re: Modifying multi-measure rests

2002-10-09 Thread Kim Shrier
nd I have a question about the best way to > approach > a problem. I am typesetting some music and the time signature is 4/2. I > would like to modify the behaviour of multi-measure rests to use a breve > rest to represent 1 measure instead of a whole rest since the duration of >

Modifying multi-measure rests

2002-10-07 Thread Kim Shrier
Hello, I am new to LilyPond and I have a question about the best way to approach a problem. I am typesetting some music and the time signature is 4/2. I would like to modify the behaviour of multi-measure rests to use a breve rest to represent 1 measure instead of a whole rest since the

Re: multi-measure rests

2002-10-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The bad news: you have hit a bug, Lilypond doesn't understand that the multi-measure rests need a certain minimal width. The good news: as soon as you add a couple of more bars of music, Lilypond will break the music into several lines and you won't suffer from the proble

multi-measure rests

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Scott
The manual gives something like this for multi-measure rests. It works if I don't try the 5 bar rest before '\mark "1"'. With that rest included I get everything on one line. I tried various combinations of turning Score.skipBars on and off with no success. Any

Re: Multi-measure rests

2002-10-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
iculations to multi-measure > rests. > Is this by design? Although it is possible to work around this by using > skips. > > \score { > \notes { > \time 3/4 > R2.^"Allegro" | | r2.^"Allegro" > } > } > > > > >

Multi-measure rests

2002-10-03 Thread Chris Jackson
It doesn't seem to be possible to attach articulations to multi-measure rests. Is this by design? Although it is possible to work around this by using skips. \score { \notes { \time 3/4 R2.^"Allegro" |

Re: Minimum length of multi-measure rests?

2002-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I tried to increase the minimum length of multi-measure > > > rests, but the minimum-length property doesn't work as > > > I expected. How to do it? Bug? > > > > See Multi_measure_r

Re: Minimum length of multi-measure rests?

2002-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I tried to increase the minimum length of multi-measure > > rests, but the minimum-length property doesn't work as > > I expected. How to do it? Bug? > > See Multi_measure_rest::set_spacing_rods (). Hmm, especially th

Minimum length of multi-measure rests?

2002-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I tried to increase the minimum length of multi-measure > rests, but the minimum-length property doesn't work as > I expected. How to do it? Bug? See Multi_measure_rest::set_spacing_rods (). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http:

Minimum length of multi-measure rests?

2002-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I tried to increase the minimum length of multi-measure rests, but the minimum-length property doesn't work as I expected. How to do it? Bug? Example: \score{\notes\relative c'{ c1 R1*12 c1 } \paper{ linewidth = -1. \translator{ \ScoreContext skipBars = ##t % Why do

Re: multi measure rests

2002-06-15 Thread Simon Bailey
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 21:23, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The only problem with your attempt it that you changed the > padding of text scripts, but not of the multi-measure rests or > rehearsal marks that you wanted to affect. > Try > \property Staff.MultiMeasureRest \override #&#x

Re: multi measure rests

2002-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only problem with your attempt it that you changed the padding of text scripts, but not of the multi-measure rests or rehearsal marks that you wanted to affect. Try \property Staff.MultiMeasureRest \override #'padding = #3 or \property Staff.MultiMeasureRest \override #'pa

multi measure rests

2002-06-14 Thread Simon Bailey
hi all, how can i tweak the depiction of multi-measure rests? i need to change the position of the numbers. enclosed a file that should show my problem. it's been cut and pasted from an arrangement of the hornpipe from the water music that i was working on, and should show my problem.

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