Re: 5th anniversary conference? :)

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan  writes:

> Hello, Pond!
>
> I was just waxing nostalgic about that fabulous Salzburg conference in
> 2020, and noted that in Jan 2025 — just under a year from now! — it
> will have been five years since we got together, talked
> music/notation, and raised [more than] a few pints together.
>
> Any chance for a repeat? :)
>
> Just throwing it out into the Universe.

I'm just throwing out that my subletter has bought a house elsewhere and
moves out end of April.  The owner has let me know that I can stay here
till the end of June (he gets some rent and someone who feeds the horses
on most days).

I'm still looking for a new place, and it's not quite clear how long
I'll need.

That would not be a university setting.  It would also not be the first
time, though there is little personal overlap.



There would be enough room to throw down sleeping bags.

Near Dortmund, within about 1.5hr of train distance from Düsseldorf and
Cologne.

It reeks like a foolish idea, for sure.  If your question hadn't had
this impeccable timing, I'd not have mentioned it.

Talk about waxing nostalgic!

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Skipping syllables from lyrics

[Aaron Hill]

On 2024-02-13 11:05 am, Morten Lemvigh wrote:

Hi,

I have some choir pieces, where all voices are singing the same verses, 
but
in some places one voice is omitting one or a few words. Is there some 
way
of skipping syllables from the lyrics from within the voice context. 
Like
entering "null notes" that would be bound to lyrics but cause them to 
not
be rendered? For example in the music for the tenor voice I would like 
to

enter "skip 2 syllables from the lyrics at this point".

My current alternative is to create lyric snippets for all the 
consecutive

parts and then glue them together for each voice. But with just a few
skipped words in a couple of voices it quickly becomes unmanageable.
Alternatively I could have complete copies of each verse for each 
voice,

but making corrections to that is not very attractive.

Any ideas for a better approach are highly appreciated.


Tags can be useful for keeping things organized:


\version "2.22.0"

words = \lyricmode {
  one two
  \tag soprano { three four }
  \tag alto { \markup \italic three __ _ }
  five
}

soprano = \relative {
  c''4 a g b | c1
}

alto = \relative {
  e'4 f e8 d~ 4 | e1
}

\new ChoirStaff <<
  \new Staff = staff <<
\new Voice = soprano { \voiceOne \soprano }
\new Voice = alto { \voiceTwo \alto }
  >>
  \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = staff }
\lyricsto soprano { \keepWithTag soprano \words }
  \new Lyrics
\lyricsto alto { \keepWithTag alto \words }
>>



-- Aaron Hill

Re: Frescobaldi: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between editor and music view?

[Hajo Baess]

Maybe I was not clear enough in what I said: Of course the code should
be visible all the time. What I mean is the following:
When you have Frescobaldi open with its split window, there is always
one of the two halves active and reacts to input. Say, you are in the
editor, but want to go to a different page of your doc in the music
view, you always have to click into the Music View half of
Frescobaldi's window in order to activate it, so you can use a keyboard
shortcut there. And when you have done this and want to go back to the
editor, you have to click again into the editor pane to activate that
one for more input.

I am looking for a keyboard shortcut for activating whatever pane I
want to be in for input instead of having to click all the time,
because LilyPond is mostly keyboard work. The mouse (at least with me)
is hardly in use...

Am Dienstag, dem 13.02.2024 um 13:24 -0600 schrieb Guy Stalnaker:
> I do not see such a toggle or any system call in the Key Shortcuts 
> preferences that seems relevant. And perhaps that is not surprising -
> Frescobaldi is after all a code editor; that it assumes (!) one would
> always want the code visible makes sense to me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> On 2/12/24 15:36, Hajo Baess wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Maybe I am missing it alltogether or it does not exist or it is to
> > hard
> > to find for me:
> > I am looking for a keyboard shortcut in Frescobaldi enabling me to
> > toggle between editor and music view, so I do not have to click
> > with
> > the mouse.
> > 
> > I just can't find it. I have tried all kinds of possible candidates
> > to
> > no avail. Is someone here who happens to know?
> > 
> > Thank you for pointing this out to me...
> > 

5th anniversary conference? :)

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hello, Pond!

I was just waxing nostalgic about that fabulous Salzburg conference in 2020, 
and noted that in Jan 2025 — just under a year from now! — it will have been 
five years since we got together, talked music/notation, and raised [more than] 
a few pints together.

Any chance for a repeat? :)

Just throwing it out into the Universe.
— Kieren
__

My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated 
to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours.

Skipping syllables from lyrics

[Morten Lemvigh]

Hi,

I have some choir pieces, where all voices are singing the same verses, but
in some places one voice is omitting one or a few words. Is there some way
of skipping syllables from the lyrics from within the voice context. Like
entering "null notes" that would be bound to lyrics but cause them to not
be rendered? For example in the music for the tenor voice I would like to
enter "skip 2 syllables from the lyrics at this point".

My current alternative is to create lyric snippets for all the consecutive
parts and then glue them together for each voice. But with just a few
skipped words in a couple of voices it quickly becomes unmanageable.
Alternatively I could have complete copies of each verse for each voice,
but making corrections to that is not very attractive.

Any ideas for a better approach are highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Morten

Re: Frescobaldi: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between editor and music view?

[Guy Stalnaker]

I do not see such a toggle or any system call in the Key Shortcuts 
preferences that seems relevant. And perhaps that is not surprising - 
Frescobaldi is after all a code editor; that it assumes (!) one would 
always want the code visible makes sense to me.


Regards

On 2/12/24 15:36, Hajo Baess wrote:

Hello all,

Maybe I am missing it alltogether or it does not exist or it is to hard
to find for me:
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut in Frescobaldi enabling me to
toggle between editor and music view, so I do not have to click with
the mouse.

I just can't find it. I have tried all kinds of possible candidates to
no avail. Is someone here who happens to know?

Thank you for pointing this out to me...


--
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of 
human existence.”

― Aristotle

Re: Assembling individual scores into a book

[Bastian Löhrer]

Actually, I believe you can do something like

    \includepdf[trim=0 20mm 0 0, clip, ...]{...}

to cut off 20mm from the bottom.

Depending on where you place your page numbers in the scores, this can 
enable you to cut them off when including the pages in your book.


Best,
Bastian

On 13.02.24 01:58, Eric Benson wrote:
One limitation to keep in mind is that you must not put lilypond page 
numbers in the scores, because pdfpages needs to write its own page 
numbers that correspond to the ToC.


On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:42 PM Eric Benson  wrote:

I should say that aside from wasting space on repeated font data,
my technique of using pdfpages in LaTeX is very effective and not
difficult, including a mechanism for starting two-page scores on
even pages. Here's my template:

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:27 PM Charlie Ma  wrote:

I should add that one issue with this method is with
optimizing page turns.
E.g., if you were relying on a piece to start on an odd page
but the prior piece in the book ended on an odd page, you'd
end up having to insert a blank page in order to preserve your
intended page turn. For large books this can become onerous to
manage.
I'm hoping someone can enlighten me with a better way.

thanks.

Re: Frescobaldi: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between editor and music view?

[Knute Snortum]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 1:37 PM Hajo Baess  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Maybe I am missing it alltogether or it does not exist or it is to hard
> to find for me:
> I am looking for a keyboard shortcut in Frescobaldi enabling me to
> toggle between editor and music view, so I do not have to click with
> the mouse.
>
> I just can't find it. I have tried all kinds of possible candidates to
> no avail. Is someone here who happens to know?
>
> Thank you for pointing this out to me...
>

If it doesn't exist, it might be a nice addition!


--
Knute Snortum

Re: staff size in mm

[Timothy Lanfear]

On 13/02/2024 09:40, Xavier Scheuer wrote:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 10:20, Mariya Kireva  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> it is possible to set up the staff size in lilypond precise in cm or mm?

Hello,

Do you want to set the global staff size so that you have a precise 
staff height and scale everything (note heads, stems, texts, titles) 
accordingly?

In that case, as mentioned in NR 4.2.2 Setting the staff size:
The default staff size is 20 points, which corresponds to a staff 
height of 7.03mm (one point is equal to 100/7227 of an inch, or 
2540/7227 mm)


So if you want a staff height of, say, 10mm you should set the global 
staff size to 20*10/7.03 = 28.45 points.

#(set-global-staff-size 28.45)

Length conversion factors are built into LilyPond, so to save doing the 
arithmetic yourself, you can write


#(set-global-staff-size (/ (ly:mm 10) (ly:pt 1)))

which scales 10mm to units of points.

--
Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.

Re: staff size in mm

[Xavier Scheuer]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 12:48, Mariya Kireva  wrote:
>
> Dear Xavier,
>
> thank you very much for your answer. Do you know if I can set the lyrics
size precise in pt?

Hello Mariya,

Please keep the lilypond-user mailing list in Cc (Reply to all).
I found this in the archive:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-05/msg00156.html

Kind regards,
Xavier

Re: staff size in mm

[Xavier Scheuer]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 10:20, Mariya Kireva  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> it is possible to set up the staff size in lilypond precise in cm or mm?

Hello,

Do you want to set the global staff size so that you have a precise staff
height and scale everything (note heads, stems, texts, titles) accordingly?
In that case, as mentioned in NR 4.2.2 Setting the staff size:
The default staff size is 20 points, which corresponds to a staff height of
7.03mm (one point is equal to 100/7227 of an inch, or 2540/7227 mm).

So if you want a staff height of, say, 10mm you should set the global staff
size to 20*10/7.03 = 28.45 points.
#(set-global-staff-size 28.45)

It is also possible to set the staff size for a single score or set the
staff size for a single staff within a system or alter the distance between
staff lines only as explained in NR 4.2.2 or NR 1.6.2.

Kind regards,
Xavier

staff size in mm

[Mariya Kireva]

Hello all,

it is possible to set up the staff size in lilypond precise in cm or mm?

Best regards
Mariya Kireva