New version of sly

2004-11-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Now sly can extract, copy, and process sly-formatted material in lilypond files. The extension tells sly what to do with the file. Get it at my website, http://www.openguitar.com daveA ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.

Re: How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice?

2004-11-30 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:31, Erik Sandberg wrote: > Have you tried using \skip within lyrics? like { la la la \skip 4 tra la la } Is that 4 notes, beats, or syllables? I can't get \skip to work correctly. I have a test song where the lyrics are: My li -- ly pond, it's fine! __ The lead singer

Re: How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice?

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23.18, Michael Kallas wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to enter a collection of SATB pieces in which I've > encountered a problem: At certain positions, I have 2 voices going > tra- la- la- la- la- la- la, > but the other two go: > tra- la- la- la- la- la- (rest) tra- la- la

transparent staff lines

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
How do I make the staff lines invisible for one or measures? It is quite common to have blank space before a coda. This is as close as I can with what I can find: \version "2.4.2" barcoda = \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts-coda" } { c''1 d'' \bar "||" \barcoda \override StaffSymbol #'lin

Re: no pdf running lilypond

2004-11-30 Thread Aaron
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > It seems that the lilypond script fails in the step where it makes > a LaTeX wrapper file based on the information you provide in your > \header{...} > > Try to comment out the different header fields and see if it's > any of them that causes th

How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice?

2004-11-30 Thread Michael Kallas
Hi, I am trying to enter a collection of SATB pieces in which I've encountered a problem: At certain positions, I have 2 voices going tra- la- la- la- la- la- la, but the other two go: tra- la- la- la- la- la- (rest) tra- la- la For the rest of the piece, the lyrics are identical, so I don't want

Re: r2 or R2 in metrum 2/4

2004-11-30 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Albert Einstein wrote: Does the mark of the rest in case of pause in whole duration of bar independently of metrum (2/4 6/8 4/4) look the same and is centered and under fourth line? R1 for 4/4 ? R2 for 2/4? R2. for 3/4? Yes, at least in 2.4.x (I don't remember if this is the

Re: r2 or R2 in metrum 2/4

2004-11-30 Thread Graham Percival
On 30-Nov-04, at 4:00 AM, Albert Einstein wrote: Does the mark of the rest in case of pause in whole duration of bar independently of metrum (2/4 6/8 4/4) look the same and is centered and under fourth line? R1 for 4/4 ? R2 for 2/4? R2. for 3/4? Try it and see! Is it the truth that small r is use

Re: once more about encodings (ver. 2.4.2)

2004-11-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've noticed that some characters in a lilypond file map to > different character numbers than in a latex document. When > substituting a different font in a lilypond file, some of the > combination characters don't work correctly, because the parts are > in the wrong place, even though the sam

Re: chords under endings updated but now for staffgroup?

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: You shouldn't read my old answers if Han-Wen has given some better answers. I searched. If I had been aware of this solution I would have used it. :) As is also described in the section on "Repeat Syntax" in the manual, the correct(!) way of handling such a situation is to s

Re: pizz and also midi

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron wrote: Hi all, Looking at the manual, I don't see a pizz. and arco command. Is this handeled by markup? Yes! Also how do I specify midi options beside an initial instrument name? I would like to add a patch change for pizz/arco as well as adding tempo changes in the score. LilyPond supports

Re: automatic uppering alternate bracket in case of chord

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Albert Einstein wrote: Must I copy this: \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'minimum-space = #7 into all \new Staff conected via \context ChoirStaff? It works in case when I paste it only into first. If you want the setting to apply the full score, use \override Score.VoltaBracket ... instead of \over

Re: no pdf running lilypond

2004-11-30 Thread Aaron
thanks It says it can't find the `lilypondxml.latex' file but there is just *.tex?? Aaron theone:/disks/hda2/lilyxml/lilyxml# lilypond -V lilypondxml.ly lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.6 Opening pipe `/usr/bin/lilypond-bin --version ' Opening pipe `kpsexpand \$TEXMF' Opening pipe `kpsewhich -expand-p

r2 or R2 in metrum 2/4

2004-11-30 Thread Albert Einstein
Does the mark of the rest in case of pause in whole duration of bar independently of metrum (2/4 6/8 4/4) look the same and is centered and under fourth line? R1 for 4/4 ? R2 for 2/4? R2. for 3/4? Is it the truth that small r is used to put rests beside pitches in the bar? And that R is used for

Re: automatic uppering alternate bracket in case of chord

2004-11-30 Thread Albert Einstein
Must I copy this: \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'minimum-space = #7 into all \new Staff conected via \context ChoirStaff? It works in case when I paste it only into first. Is it possible to display volta bracket above each simultaneously repeated staff, not only above top? And is it according t

pizz and also midi

2004-11-30 Thread Aaron
Hi all, Looking at the manual, I don't see a pizz. and arco command. Is this handeled by markup? Also how do I specify midi options beside an initial instrument name? I would like to add a patch change for pizz/arco as well as adding tempo changes in the score. I realize that lilypond isn't a m

Re: no pdf running lilypond

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that the lilypond script fails in the step where it makes a LaTeX wrapper file based on the information you provide in your \header{...} Try to comment out the different header fields and see if it's any of them that causes the problem. The error message relates to the inputencoding field,

Re: once more about encodings (ver. 2.4.2)

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2004-11/msg00310.html with followups for some conclusions from the meeting! /Mats pdz wrote: Rob V wrote: Werner, I would like to make a request about the font encoding (but I think I'm late for your meeting). I don't know if this is possible

Re: once more about encodings (ver. 2.4.2)

2004-11-30 Thread pdz
Rob V wrote: Werner, I would like to make a request about the font encoding (but I think I'm late for your meeting). I don't know if this is possible, or if I can even describe it correctly, but I think it would be nice to have the encoding work the same as in a latex document. Rob Werner, how was

Re: no pdf running lilypond

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strange! Run lilypond --verbose to get more information on what's going on. It should certainly run latex, dvips and ps2pdf. /Mats Aaron wrote: Hi all, I am using lilypond 2.2.6 and when I run lilypond on a score I get no parsing errors but it only produces a tex file even with a -p or -P flag.

Re: automatic uppering alternate bracket in case of chord

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2004-11/msg00226.html /Mats Albert Einstein wrote: In this example (v.2.2.5, win2000) second bracket of alternate command is not at the same horizontal position as first: \score{ \notes{ \time 2/4 \clef violin \repeat volta 2{e'4 b'4 e'4 b'4

Re: chords under endings updated but now for staffgroup?

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You shouldn't read my old answers if Han-Wen has given some better answers. As is also described in the section on "Repeat Syntax" in the manual, the correct(!) way of handling such a situation is to set the voltaOnThisStaff property. Unfortunately, the example file linked from the manual is missin

Re: Lyrics overruning left staff line

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would recommend to use the predefined macros #left #right and #center For example: \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #left /Mats Lloyd Kvam wrote: Thanks, that worked perfectly. Much better than my s4._" " spacing. I assume that -1 is text starts at note (left justified) 0 is tex

Re: moving sub. p under slur or tie

2004-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I always recommend to use the padding property to move things up or down (I view extra-offset as an emergency option when nothing else works). So, try \once \override TextScript #'padding = #'2 By the way, I would use the following markup command _\markup{ \italic sub. \dynamic p } to make it nicer