Getting a function to accept a string or a markup
Hi,
I have a text spanner function that shows a player that they are playing in
simultaneous rhythm with one or more other players. I adapted it from code
I used for indicating colouration in renaissance music. It works fine, but
if it begins on the last note of a line, and the attached string is long,
it can extend right to the edge of the page (see picture attached).
What would be good is to be able to say
\sim \markup \left-column { "Vln 1," "Vln 2" }
if needed. Otherwise I could have it require a markup and get it to
concatenate within the function, but my Scheme skills are not up to this...
Thanks in advance,
Vaughan
\version "2.24.3"
%contrinuted by harm6
% after an idea by Nathan
% see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-07/msg00036.html
% thanks to Mark Knoop
mySimBeginning = "┌ "
mySimEnding = "┐"
sim =
#(define-music-function (annotation)(string?) ; I want this to be a string or a markup
#{
\tag #'removeFromScore {
\once \override TextSpanner.before-line-breaking =
#(lambda (grob)
(let* ((sz (ly:grob-property grob 'font-size 0.0))
(mult (magstep sz)))
(begin
(ly:grob-set-property! grob 'style 'none)
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details left text)
(markup #:scale (cons mult mult) (string-append mySimBeginning annotation)))
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details right text)
(markup #:scale (cons mult mult) mySimEnding))
;;Perhaps you may want to uncomment the following lines
;;and adjust the value (currently -0.5)
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details left padding) -0.5)
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details right padding) -0.5)
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details left-broken text) #f)
(ly:grob-set-nested-property! grob
'(bound-details right-broken text) #f
$(make-music 'EventChord 'elements (list
(make-music
'TextSpanEvent
'span-direction -1)))
}
#})
simEnd = \tag #'removeFromScore \stopTextSpan
\score {
\relative c' {
c4 \sim "Vln1" c c c |
\break
% here it would be useful to say
% \sim \markup \left-column { "Vln 1," "Vln, 2" }
c c \simEnd c \sim "Vln 1, Vln, 2" c |
\break
c c \simEnd c c |
}
\layout {}
}
\paper {
ragged-right = ##t
}
[basic question] how to disable text spanners for the lower staff of a PianoStaff
I've got a piano staff (for guzheng, just notating on two staves), and an
"accel." text spanner in a \global var.
The accel is printed in both staves of the piano staff.
I'd thought this would hide it from the lower staff:
\new PianoStaff \with {
instrumentName = "古筝"
shortInstrumentName = "古筝"
} <<
\new Staff = "up" << \global \zhengR >>
\new Staff = "down" \with { \remove Text_spanner_engraver }
<< \clef bass \global \zhengL >>
>>
But it still appears.
Some magic incantation I'm missing... can anyone advise? Thanks.
hjh
Spacing of chords on a chord lead sheet
I have generated a chord lead sheet for a bass player with just the
chords on it (\chordMode, no notes). After some fiddling I got the bar
lines and repeats printed.
However, the chord names are mono-spaced; they are not spaced according
to their durations. So that if, for instance, I have {ef2 ef4:maj7
ef4:7} then each symbol occupies the same amount of space on the line.
The first chord does not occupy double the space of the other two.
Is there a way of getting proportional spacing?
--
Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution
Giles Boardman writes: > Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just > kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking. It is "it is hardwired into the source code to a degree where it would require some really heavy lifting to make it adaptable". It would be easier (but not trivial) to hardwire it to a different fixed value, but then your copy of LilyPond would be incompatible with everybody else's which is a maintenance nightmare, meaning that it should only be attempted by people who are probably versed enough as programmers as to be able to contribute a variable-size tick. "it can't be done" is not a thing with Free Software. It's more like "if you have to ask, you may be the wrong person to do this as your first project". -- David Kastrup
Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution
Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking. From: David Kastrup Sent: 09 May 2024 18:41 To: Giles Boardman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution Giles Boardman writes: > Hello, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files No. > and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. No. > I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different > sources and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond. Why? You can use MIDI processors to generate format 0 and change resolution. -- David Kastrup
Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution
Giles Boardman writes: > Hello, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files No. > and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. No. > I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different > sources and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond. Why? You can use MIDI processors to generate format 0 and change resolution. -- David Kastrup
MIDI format and MIDI resolution
Hello, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. I have been standardising resolution for midi files from different sources and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond. Thanks Giles
Re: Showing fingering on top of slurs
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 7:05 AM Paul McKay wrote:
> Hi
> I want to show the fingering in front of the slurs. This should keep the
> fingerings evenly spaced vertically over the notes. I have tried the
> following :
>
> \version "2.24.0"
> \language "english"
>
> \relative {
> \override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite
> slurs
> r4 r8 -1-3( 16-2-4 -1-5-2-4-3-5) }
>
> Fingerings still avoid the slurs.
> What am I missing?
>
I'm not sure what you want to achieve, but try adding the avoid-slur
property to the fingering:
\version "2.24.0"
\language "english"
\relative {
\override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite
slurs
\override Staff.Fingering.avoid-slur = #'ignore
r4 r8 -1-3( 16-2-4 -1-5-2-4-3-5) }
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/slur
--
Knute Snortum
Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff
> Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: > ties may not work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference > is not really conspicuous. [...] By the way, the original problem is an ooold bug: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/555 Werner
Showing fingerings in front of slurs
Hi
I want to show fingerings in front of slurs in a manner very like that
demonstrated in the "Using the whiteout property" snippet
This is what I've tried:
\version "2.24.0"
\language "english"
\relative {
\override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite
slurs
\override Staff.Fingering.whiteout = ##t
r4 r8 -1-3( 16-2-4 -1-5-2-4-3-5)
}
but the fingerings still avoid the slurs. I want them to appear just where
they would if the Slurs weren't there at all.
What am I missing?
Thanks
Paul McKay
Showing fingering on top of slurs
Hi
I want to show the fingering in front of the slurs. This should keep the
fingerings evenly spaced vertically over the notes. I have tried the
following :
\version "2.24.0"
\language "english"
\relative {
\override Staff.Fingering.layer = 2 % fingering should overwrite
slurs
r4 r8 -1-3( 16-2-4 -1-5-2-4-3-5) }
Fingerings still avoid the slurs.
What am I missing?
Thanks
Paul McKay
Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM Kris Van Bruwaene wrote:
> Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: ties
> may not work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference is not really
> conspicuous. Result attached.
>
That's great! I'd change one thing -- not related to cross-staves ties.
In the right-hand set of temporary voices, third voice, I'd start with
\voiceFour instead of \voiceThree. Now the need for \stemDown \slurDown
goes away:
\new Voice { \voiceFour % ties (actually slurs) between staves
s2 b2( \change Staff = "down" \voiceOne b4) \change Staff = "up" s4 %
2
}
Also, just for future reference, if you just have one slur or tie (or other
things like fematas) to change up or down, you can use the direction
indicators:
b2_( % slur down
b2^( % slur up
--
Knute Snortum
Re: Tie between staves of a PianoStaff
Thanks for your contributions. They inspired me to an easy bypass: ties may not
work between staves, but slurs do, and the difference is not really
conspicuous. Result attached.
On Wednesday, 8 May 2024 at 18:44:10 CEST, David Wright
wrote:
On Wed 08 May 2024 at 13:40:23 (+), Kris Van Bruwaene wrote:
> Is there a simple solution for putting a tie between staves of a pianostaff?
> I need to tie a note of the lower voice on the upper staff to a note of the
> upper voice on the lower staff. I found this on StackExchange:
> https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/74383/lilypond-ties-across-staves
> but it's five years old and seems rather difficult to implement.
> I use version 2.24.2 on Debian.
I'd agree with Knute: you have to bite the bullet and learn \shape.
But in the old stackexchange post, I'd be tempted to make the tie
unambiguous. The result is not publishable, but I don't think it
leaves room for doubt, even with no extra work, and it's \break-
able at either barline. (I'm assuming the lower e /is/ restruck
in measure two.)
Cheers,
David.
myTie.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
\version "2.24.2"
organUp = \relative c' {
\clef treble
\key e \minor
r2\mf
<<
{ \voiceOne
c4 d | e2( g)
}
\new Voice { \voiceTwo
s2 | s2 e
}
\new Voice { \voiceThree % ties (actually slurs) between staves
s2 \stemDown \slurDown b2( \change Staff = "down" \voiceOne b4) \change Staff = "up" s4 % 2
}
>>
}
organDown = \relative c' {
\clef bass
\key e \minor
<<
{ \voiceOne
r4 b2 a4 | g2 s4 a
}
\new Voice { \voiceTwo
e1 ~ | e4 d c2
}
>>
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff \with { midiInstrument = #"church organ" } <<
\new Staff = "up" \organUp
\new Staff = "down" \organDown
>>
\layout { }
}
