Cannot start syllable in lyrics with \ae dypthong

2005-10-30 Thread Joseph Haig
When writing lyrics to music in Lilypond 2.2.6 (as packages with Debian Sarge) I cannot start a syllable with an \ae dypthong. The error is: lily-1852058339.ly:185:24: error: unknown escaped string: `\ae': pr\ae- sta me- \ae men- ti Note that the first \ae

Re: Cannot start syllable in lyrics with \ae dypthong

2005-10-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
of \ae. /Mats Joseph Haig wrote: When writing lyrics to music in Lilypond 2.2.6 (as packages with Debian Sarge) I cannot start a syllable with an \ae dypthong. The error is: lily-1852058339.ly:185:24: error: unknown escaped string: `\ae': pr\ae- sta me- \ae men

lyrics dashes

2005-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
% % [EMAIL PROTECTED] \version 2.7.11 \header { texidoc = The dashes between syllables in lyrics produced by two hyphen characters are (sometimes?) too low compared to the default position of the hyphen. reportedin = 2.7.11' } \relative c' { c2 c | } \addlyrics {

Re: lyrics dashes

2005-10-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: % % [EMAIL PROTECTED] \version 2.7.11 \header { texidoc = The dashes between syllables in lyrics produced by two hyphen characters are (sometimes?) too low compared to the default position of the hyphen. is there a standard way to detect the hyphen position

Re: lyrics dashes

2005-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
is there a standard way to detect the hyphen position? I don't think so. Contrary to the x-height of glyphs there is no necessity normally to get this value. Or should we shove - down pango, and take the BBox of that? This sounds like an excellent idea, since we not only get the right

Re: lyrics dashes

2005-10-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: is there a standard way to detect the hyphen position? I don't think so. Contrary to the x-height of glyphs there is no necessity normally to get this value. Or should we shove - down pango, and take the BBox of that? This sounds like an excellent idea, since we

Re: lyrics centering bug

2005-10-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
\header { texidoc = It seems that contexts within contexts confuse LilyPond's lyrics engine. Starting with the second syllable in the second context, lyrics are no longer centered below the note but left-aligned. reportedin = 2.7.11' } \context Voice \relative c

Re: lyrics centering bug

2005-10-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, On Friday 30 September 2005 22.25, Werner LEMBERG wrote: % % [EMAIL PROTECTED] \version 2.7.11 \header { texidoc = It seems that contexts within contexts confuse LilyPond's lyrics engine. Starting with the second syllable in the second context, lyrics are no longer centered below

Re: ignoring ties for lyrics

2005-09-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
~ bes8 r8 \acciaccatura bes8 c'8. bes16~ bes16 a8. r16 g8 e16 } verseone = \lyrics { guise as no __ one knows __ hides the face, __ lies the __ snake and the } versetwo = \lyrics { warm wind, ti -- red friend. Times \set ignoreMelismata = ##t are gone for \unset

minor lyrics alignment bug

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Baca
Inclusion of underscore character _ with a duration in \lyricmode causes right alignment rather than center alignment of previous lyric text. BEGIN ALIGNMENT BUG SNIPPET %% \score { \new Staff { c'4 c'4 c'4 c'4 } \new Lyrics \lyricmode

Re: minor lyrics alignment bug

2005-08-25 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Baca wrote: Inclusion of underscore character _ with a duration in \lyricmode causes right alignment rather than center alignment of previous lyric text. It's a feature, not a bug. This is intended as a way to easily enter melismata. Use \skip if you want to skip things. --

alignAboveContext: bad lyrics placement

2005-08-13 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi, I'm not sure if that's a bug or if I'm just doing something badly. In the following snippet, the lyrics are not placed below the newly added staff. \version 2.7.5 \layout { raggedright = ##t } \context Staff = low { c'1 \break c'1 } { \skip 1 \new Staff \set Staff

Re: alignAboveContext: bad lyrics placement

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 13 August 2005 15.59, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if that's a bug or if I'm just doing something badly. In the following snippet, the lyrics are not placed below the newly added staff. \new Lyrics creates a new lyrics context, independently of the Staff context

Re: hairpin-lyrics interaction bug

2005-08-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
the explanations. Possibly a workaround for this already exists? Or possibly the Dynamics context I've built here for these examples is somehow deficient. Or perhaps Lily's default behavior for hairpin spanning should change? Trevor. %%% hairpin-lyrics interaction %%% \version 2.7.4 \markup

hairpin-lyrics interaction bug

2005-08-11 Thread Trevor Baca
a workaround for this already exists? Or possibly the Dynamics context I've built here for these examples is somehow deficient. Or perhaps Lily's default behavior for hairpin spanning should change? Trevor. %%% hairpin-lyrics interaction %%% \version 2.7.4 \markup {\wordwrap {\bold

Bar_engraver in Lyrics

2005-06-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Bar_engraver draws bar lines into the lyrics, so the lyrics-bar.ly test fails (?) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly Bert ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Bar_engraver in Lyrics

2005-06-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Bar_engraver draws bar lines into the lyrics, so the lyrics-bar.ly test fails (?) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly not strictly. The line on the left technically is not a barline. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL

Re: lyrics alignment in fold percent

2005-05-12 Thread Luis Guillermo Agudelo
Erick, Thank you very much for your reply. As I mentioned, I am not currently dealing with traditional western music but Russian church sort of music. They use the repeat sign quite oftenly and you are supposed to sing all the lyrics underneath the repeat sign // on the same pitch and duration

lyrics alignment in fold percent

2005-05-10 Thread Luis Guillermo Agudelo
Hi, I initially reported this issue to the Lilypond user's list. I haven't got any answer yet but I still believe this is a bug. Thanks for your attention, Luis Dear lilypond users, I noticed that in the discussion log, there is quite a lot already about lyrics and alignment but I quite didn't

Re: lyrics alignment in fold percent

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
Dear lilypond users, I noticed that in the discussion log, there is quite a lot already about lyrics and alignment but I quite didn't see the problem I am having now. I believe it is a bug. When using repeat percent, the lyrics do not get aligned with the //(repeat) sign according

Re: Lyrics disappeared from midi files in 2.4.0

2005-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Seems like a bug! /Mats Michiel Lange wrote: Recently I have upgraded from lilypond 2.2 to 2.4 After convert-ly and running the files through lilypond it appears that songs with lyrics that did have lyrics in midifiles in lily 2.2 no longer have them. Has something changed around this point

Re: Lyrics disappeared from midi files in 2.4.0

2005-01-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
Thanks, added to bug cvs (midi-lyrics) On Friday 28 January 2005 12.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Seems like a bug! /Mats Michiel Lange wrote: Recently I have upgraded from lilypond 2.2 to 2.4 After convert-ly and running the files through lilypond it appears that songs with lyrics

Re: \skip ignores value in \lyrics context (v2.2.6)

2004-12-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I guess that you use \lyricsto or \addlyrics to combine the lyrics with the music. In that case, the durations specified in the lyrics section are completely ignored, since each new syllable is matched to the next note of the music. From your question, it seems that the \skip is just handled

\skip ignores value in \lyrics context (v2.2.6)

2004-11-30 Thread Michael Kallas
Hi, \skip requires a value, which seems to be completely ignored in \lyrics context. So I have to enter 14 times \skip 1 if I want to skip 14 notes with my lyrics. That is quite unhandy. Best regards Michael Kallas ___ bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Very wide spacing w chords lyrics [2.3.24 update]

2004-10-28 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:15 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 08.02, Matthias Neeracher wrote: An update on for 2.3.24: Default spacing is now rather perverse in an interesting way: A simple song with lyrics (with or without chords) always gets stretched so one staff ends up

Re: Very wide spacing w chords lyrics [2.3.24 update]

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Scott
is actually even MORE loose than in 2.3.21. What is fixed is that a page break is inserted rather than having the last system run into the Engraved by Lilypond credits. see my reply regarding Subject: Very wide spacing w chords lyrics on lilypond-devel. An update on for 2.3.24: Default spacing is now

Re: Very wide spacing w chords lyrics [2.3.24 update]

2004-10-27 Thread Matthias Neeracher
is inserted rather than having the last system run into the Engraved by Lilypond credits. see my reply regarding Subject: Very wide spacing w chords lyrics on lilypond-devel. An update on for 2.3.24: Default spacing is now rather perverse in an interesting way: A simple song with lyrics

Re: alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

2004-09-19 Thread Bernd Edler
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Mats Bengtsson wrote: However, I don't understand your problems with \skip, see the following version of your example: You are right of course. I should have tested before writing. I learned only recently, I can use \skip instead of or _ in lyrics. The manual does

Re: alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

2004-09-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I don't understand your problems with \skip, see the following version of your example: I don't get \skip to play nicely with \lyricsto in 2.2.1, though. Is this something that's been fixed later? -- Arvid

Re: alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

2004-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bernd Edler wrote: Hello, i have trouble with applying the alternate lyrics technique from repeats.ly (de eerste maat..) from the tips tricks section of the manual to multiple stanzas. Instead of: Staff== 1st stanza 1st (bbb) 1st stanza rpt.(ccc) 2nd stanza 1st (xxx) 2nd stanza

Bug in spacing of lyrics in polyphonic context

2004-09-14 Thread P Scott Horne
In the old days of version 1.6.8, we wrote polyphony this way: {c d e}\\{e f g} Now the notation is {c d e}\\{e f g} There seems to be a bug in the engraving of lyrics set against a staff that breaks into polyphony with the new notation of double chevrons. In version 1.6.8

Re: Lyrics assignment problem

2004-06-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 14 June 2004 12.47, Bertalan Fodor wrote: \new Lyrics \lyrics \lyricsto singerA { Pam -- pam -- pam -- pam -- pam. } \lyricsto singerB { La -- la -- la -- la -- la. } \lyricsto singerC { Blah -- blah -- blah -- blah -- blah

Re: Lyrics assignment problem

2004-06-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 14 June 2004 18.10, Bertalan Fodor wrote: think I'll start thinking then propose a better system to the coders. (your problem is far from the only one related to lyrics syntax intuition). Well, I think that the main problem is the documentation. It doesn't have the best

Re: Lyrics assignment problem

2004-06-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
= singer { ... } \lyricsto singer { la -- la -- la } But lyricsto only assigns the lyrics to the first occurence of singer. It is strange that if I say \lyricsto instrument the lyrics is assigned to all occurences. Try this: (you might want to split up the lyrics into pieces anyways

Lyrics assignment problem

2004-06-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor
} But lyricsto only assigns the lyrics to the first occurence of singer. It is strange that if I say \lyricsto instrument the lyrics is assigned to all occurences. Lily version: 2.2.2 Source attachment: \version 2.2.2 \score { \new Staff \notes \relative c' { \context

progerror-lyrics-staff

2004-05-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, I added this bug, as progerror-lyrics-staff. %important [EMAIL PROTECTED] \header { texidoc = This code results in a 'programming error'. In the first example, two empty bars are added also. In the second example, the two :s belong to the same Staff context, but are typeset as different

Midi lyrics barcheck warnings

2004-04-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
for the last barcheck in the lyrics. %The problem disappears e.g. if you remove the first staff, or if you remove %the first 3 bars, or if you change the tie in bar 27 to a slur. \version 2.2.0 \score { \new Staff \notes { \time 6/8 r2. r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r b8 b b b b b

convert-ly and '\' in lyrics

2004-04-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
hi, In lyrics mode, e.g. 'gö' is written 'g\o' using 2.2. However, in v1.6, this was written 'g\\\o'. convert-ly does not take care of this difference. Does anyone know in which version (approximately) this change happened? Erik ___ Bug-lilypond

Lyrics alignment - lyricsto vs. explicit length

2004-04-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hello, the lyrics alignment with explicit syllables is not good (v. 2.1.31). Syllables are not centered as with lyricsto. \score { \new Staff { \notes \relative c' { c d8 e f4. g8 } } \lyricsto \new Lyrics \lyrics { one two three four

Lyrics alignment - lyricsto vs. explicit length

2004-04-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, the lyrics alignment with explicit syllables is not good (v. 2.1.31). Syllables are not centered as with lyricsto. do \set associatedVoice = #name-of-the-voice -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

Lyrics alignment - lyricsto vs. explicit length

2004-04-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, the lyrics alignment with explicit syllables is not good (v. 2.1.31). Syllables are not centered as with lyricsto. do \set associatedVoice = #name-of-the-voice in addition there was a bug, which I fixed in 2.3 cvs. I

Slur collides with lyrics

2004-03-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
hi, I made a slur collide with some lyrics, see attached png (hope it isn't filtered away). The .ly is copyrighted, so tell me if you want the source. I have: \context {\StaffContext minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-0.5 . 0.5) } \context {\LyricsContext minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-0.5 . 0.5

Re: Slur collides with lyrics

2004-03-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 28 March 2004 19.24, Erik Sandberg wrote: hi, I made a slur collide with some lyrics, see attached png (hope it isn't filtered away). It was filtered away. Get it here: http://peg.it.uu.se/~erik/slur.png The .ly is copyrighted, so tell me if you want the source. I have

midi lyrics broken after slur

2004-03-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
hi, It seems that any syllables after a slurred syllable are not output to midi. \version 2.1.33 \score { \context Voice=A \notes {a16( a) b c d e f } \lyricsto A \context Lyrics \lyrics { a b c d e f } \paper {} \midi {\tempo 4=100} } output: a midi file with an 'a' as its only lyric

fontSize in lyrics

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, fontSize seems to be broken for lyrics. Using it has no effect for me (2.1.23). And font-size doesn't scale lyric hyphens. Erik ___ Bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

fontSize in lyrics

2004-02-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, fontSize seems to be broken for lyrics. Using it has no effect for me fixed. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ Bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

More lyrics extender problems

2004-02-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
With 2.1.18 there are still the same problems with __ . When playing around with the extender example at The-Lyrics-context.html, I got to this another example. Removing the explicit \time 4/4, that overrides the default \time 4/4, *does* change the apperance of the extender in this case

Bug when combining multiple voices/lyrics

2004-01-17 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
voices/lyrics were combined, the problem arose. I tried to strip the piece as much as possible, but it still a considerable amount of score. The attached zip file also contains the full logfile from which the previous part was extracted. Bye, Ruud Could you please look into it? Deel2.zip

Bug when combining multiple voices/lyrics

2004-01-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Currently my daughter is learning and using Lilypond and she gets a hang of it. She was busy creating a score of a piec of Mendelssohn St. Paul's. She uses the midi files produced by lilypond to practice. She got stuck with the attached piece. It simply

lyrics in 2.1.5

2004-01-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love this new lyrics spacing engine! Everything looks a lot better now. But it can still be further improved: Watch the following example, using 2.1.5. The komm, lyric is placed too much to the left; I can see no reason why it should intersect with the barline

more lyrics notation wishes

2004-01-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, Here's a new issue on lyrics notation. It happens in choral music that different voices have _almost_ the same lyrics, and it only differs during a few bars. It is a common behaviour to split the lyrics at these bars only. Example: SATB. Everyone sings lalala, and suddenly A+T sing baz

New lyrics-alignment

2004-01-03 Thread Bertalan Fodor
This new lyrics-alignment is great and I'm very happy to see it now. I have one problem: when I compile 2.1.5 from the source package, the dashes between syllables are the old (variable length) ones. Greetings, Bert ___ Bug-lilypond mailing list

Re: Very long hyphens in lyrics

2003-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The best way to file a feature request is to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I send a copy of this reply to that list, so you don't really have to do anything extra. However, I realize that the solution I sent in a previous email to avoid the empty lyrics lines were removed didn't work

Again about lyrics and ties

2003-10-18 Thread Marco Caliari
Hi all. This is my third message about this topic, but the (wrong) result is different from the previous one. The code \score{ \addlyrics \new Staff \notes \relative d' {\times 2/3{g2 r g(} \times 2/3{f d) g} d4} \new Lyrics \lyrics { bis, mi- __ se- } \addlyrics \new Staff \notes

Bug (?) with lyrics

2003-09-27 Thread Marco Caliari
Hi all. In the following (sorry, but I cannot reproduce in a simplier manner), I have problems with lyrics. If I comment the first lyrics, the result is good, even if I have several warning: Huh? Melismatic note found to have associated lyrics. The same if I comment the third lyrics. But if I

1.9.6 ties break lyrics

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Bailey-Mortimer
Hi, Using lilypond 1.9.6 on the attached music, no lyrics appear after the first tied note in each voice. Replacing the tie with a slur, e.g. d~d = d( d) makes the lyrics work fine.. until the next tie. Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug? Ian let_us_adore.ly Description

1.9.6 ties break lyrics

2003-09-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Using lilypond 1.9.6 on the attached music, no lyrics appear after the first tied note in each voice. Replacing the tie with a slur, e.g. d~d = d( d) fixed in 1.9 CVS. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

Re: Lyrics bugs and bracket problem (NTG meeting)

2003-08-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Maarten Wisse wrote: Dear Lilypond-developers, First, congrats. with the release of 1.8. I've upgraded to it. As Han-Wen suggested at the NTG meeting last May in Zeist, I report some bugs with the lyrics handling. I basically try to mimic a modern edition of Lasso's Lectiones on Job (AR

Lyrics-mode broken in cvs

2002-11-01 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
The following, taken from the manual, is broken in development version. Stable version shows it right. As you can see, extender lines are entered as __. Heikki Junes ___ Bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lyrics-mode broken in cvs

2002-11-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following, taken from the manual, is broken in development version. Stable version shows it right. As you can see, extender lines are entered as __. Thanks. Fixed in CVS. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen

Re: still lyrics

2002-07-28 Thread Glen Prideaux
attached image. .. for the moment I'm gladly leaving this to Glen who wrote the code. It sounds like you're encountering the lyric-phrasing-engraver. This is intended to automatically adjust the alignment of lyrics of songs with multiple stanzas. It makes the first syllable

Re: still lyrics

2002-07-27 Thread Han-Wen
I'm gladly leaving this to Glen who wrote the code. It sounds like you're encountering the lyric-phrasing-engraver. This is intended to automatically adjust the alignment of lyrics of songs with multiple stanzas. It makes the first syllable of a phrase left aligned, and the last

Re: still lyrics

2002-07-26 Thread Glen Prideaux
wrote the code. It sounds like you're encountering the lyric-phrasing-engraver. This is intended to automatically adjust the alignment of lyrics of songs with multiple stanzas. It makes the first syllable of a phrase left aligned, and the last right aligned, detecting phrases

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