Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

That's a common sense approach. And your auto-reply is very courteous.

dB

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 5:37 PM Jean Abou Samra  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've not been an admin of this list for very long, yet I'm already weary
> of telling people who post without being subscribed to the list that they
> should subscribe in order to avoid each of their messages being manually
> approved. I wonder what you (meaning everyone, but especially Mark, the
> other admin) would think about changing the list configuration to reject
> post from non-members instead of holding them on moderation, with a message
> such as
>
> “Welcome to the lilypond-user mailing list. We apologize, but in order to
> prevent spam, we need you to subscribe to the list before you post. Please
> fill out the subscription form on
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user.
>
> Once you are subscribed, you will receive all posts to the list, so you
> can help out other people as well. However, if you only wish to interact
> with this list infrequently, you may disable mail subscription in your
> membership preferences after you have subscribed.
>
> If you believe you are already subscribed to the list, it probably means
> that you accidentally posted from a different email address than the one
> you are subscribed with.
>
> If you have any question or encounter problems, feel free to contact the
> list admins at lilypond-user-ow...@gnu.org”
>
> On the plus side, this means that instead of delaying the message until
> Mark or me looks at it, the feedback will come instantly.
>
> Jean
>

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

I have always used Gimp to convert music PDFs to EPS, whether the PDF was
generated by Lilypond (via Frescobaldi) or by gabc. Here is a link to a
document I wrote several years ago detailing how to do that:
http://lakewoodsound.com/misc/pdf2eps-gimp.pdf

Hope this helps.

dB

On Tue, May 31, 2022, 11:56 AM WaiMing Tsang  wrote:

> Hi lilyponders:
>
>
>
> To produce ‘EPS’ images;
>
> lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly
>
> How ro run the above from frecobaldi v3.13?  I do not know how to use
> command line with lilypond.
>
>
>
> Thank you for the help,
>
>
>
> Shalom,
>
> Ming
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail  for
> Windows
>
>
>

Re: Engraving chords with the same note twice, but different accidentals

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

I also would prefer to see a G#. However between the two examples, I think
the first is slightly more readable.

That said, what are the subsequent A's supposed to be - flat or natural? As
written, I would play them as naturals in the first example, but flats in
the second example. Were I engraving this, I would put an explicit
accidental, whether flat or natural on the fourth A, as well.


dB

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 11:51 AM Kieren MacMillan <
kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > Speaking as a keyboard player (and lilypond novice) I would recommend
> re-spelling the a flat as a g sharp! Sometimes, theory has to take a
> backseat to readability.
>
> If theoretical correctness (or, say, accuracy to a previous source) isn't
> a requirement, then I agree with Charlie: this is a moment in which, as a
> keyboard player, I'd much rather see two different notes [by pitch name].
>
> Otherwise, I'd say the split-stem convention is [perhaps
> counterintuitively?!] more readable for me. If you want to do this in
> Lilypond, I'm pretty sure Harm has solved this particular issue (see e.g.,
> https://archiv.lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,1176.msg6932.html#msg6932
> ).
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
>
dB

Re: fonts on windows

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

Also, be sure you are using the font name exactly as the system knows
it. To find out, click on the font in the Font Settings window.
Properly installed fonts will show you the  metadata. In your Lilypond
code, specify the font name exactly as it is in the "Full Name" field
of the metadata. That is not always the same as the way it is listed
in a font list

For example, on my system, I have a full installation of Cormorant,
which has 9 variants. Although it lists in the Settings simply as
Cormorant, if I want the main type (no bold or italic, etc.) I see
that the regular version is called Cormorant Regular.

Hope this helps.

dB


On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:37 PM Valentin Petzel  wrote:
>
> Hello Elaine,
>
> While I cannot say anything for sure (lacking a Windows system) I guess the
> fonts are installed in some folder in your user directory that is not part of
> the fontconfig font path. The system location for fonts on windows is C:
> \Windows\Fonts. Try to copy your font files directly into this directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> Am Samstag, 15. Jänner 2022, 01:19:18 CET schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm setting up an new lilypond environment
> > on a surface pro running windows 10
> > using VSCode as an editor,
> > and cygwin as a terminal.
> >
> > I am not able to get lilypond to use my fonts yet.
> >
> > I was able to install them in windows itself,
> > since I can see them in the windows Fonts Settings.
> >
> > To do this, I did some dragging & dropping,
> > and some using "right-click > install" in the file navigator.
> >
> > But when I compile my lilypond files,
> > the resulting files do not use the fonts.
> >
> > When I run "lilypond -dshow-available-fonts",
> > while it does list numerous fonts,
> > it does not list the fonts I installed.
> >
> > Specifically, I am using "Highlander ITC TT"
> > for chord symbols.
> > This is how I specify it, and this works on my other systems:
> >
> >   #(define fonts
> > (make-pango-font-tree "Marker Felt"
> >   "Highlander ITC TT"
> >   "LilyJAZZText"
> >(/ myStaffSize 20)))
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get lilypond to find these
> > fonts?
> >
> > FWIW, I'm running 2.23.2 on this machine, but I'm on 2.19.81 on my other
> > machines.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Elaine Alt
> > 415 . 341 .4954   "*Confusion is
> > highly underrated*"
> > ela...@flaminghakama.com
> > Producer ~ Composer ~ Instrumentalist ~ Educator
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: How to implement a "5-3" fingering (Piano) (LP 2.22)

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff

The second example under the heading "Fingering Instructions" gives you a
couple of options.

dB

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:51 PM Kenneth Wolcott 
wrote:

> HI;
>
>   How to implement a "5-3" fingering (Piano) (LP 2.22)
>
> See attachment.
>
> I have a piece of music arranged for Piano which I am practicing my
> Lilypond engraving skills.
>
> The final bar (in the bass clef) is two half notes.  The first half
> note has a fingering of "5-3".
>
>   How does one engrave that?
>
> Probably something obvious in the manual that I missed.
>
> Thanks in advance for your awesome assistance!
>
> Ken Wolcott
>

Re: Relative Tempo Markings in Lilypond 2.22

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

Thanks, Carl. I didn't think about convert-ly. It's been a while since I
needed it.

dB

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 11:10 PM Carl Sorensen  wrote:

>
>
> convert-ly will fix this for you.
>
> The argument for \note changed from a string ( #"8")  to a duration
> ({8}).  See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/changes/
>
> HTH,
>
> Carl
>
>
>

Relative Tempo Markings in Lilypond 2.22

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

I have a score in 2.18, one section of which uses with the following code:

\tempo \markup { \pad-to-box #'(0 . 0) #'(8 . 10)
  \concat {
{ \override #'(font-name . "Linux Biolinum Slanted")
\fontsize #1 "Musette  " }
  (
  \small \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"8" #1
  " = "
  \small \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"8" #1
  )
  }
  }
This produces the section title followed by eighth note equals eighth
note, in parentheses.

When I tried to render the score in 2.22, I received the following
error message:

/music_typeset/tonsing_pm+f/tonsing_pm+f3.ly:147:52: error: wrong type
for argument 1.  Expecting duration, found "8"
  \small \general-align #Y #DOWN \note
   #"8" #1
As best I can tell, I'm using the form given in the manual, so I'm not
sure what this error means or how to fix it. Commenting out the code
to create the "Musette" title makes no difference.

I'm using Lilypond in Frescobaldi on WIndows 10.

Me: I've been using Lilypond for 15 or 16 years, but am new to this list.

Thanks for any help.

dB