Re: stanzas outside the music

2006-02-21 Thread Dunstan Vavasour
Here's an example which I put together late last year - I know it's lengthy, but it shows what can be done. I would much prefer if I could input verse text into a variable and then either put it between the staves or as a freestanding verse at the end, using high level functions rather than la

Re: Distance of Lyrics to staff with markup

2006-02-21 Thread Mike Bosschaert
>> a. make the rest of the soprano and alto voice collide > \oneVoice > (see the Fine Manual) OK, I've seen it in the manual but did not know the meaning (the manual is not always very clear for novices). Switching between \oneVoice and \voiceOne or \voiceTwo works, OK. But isn't there a com

Re: Alignment of Staff.instrument (v.2.7.34-1, WinXP)

2006-02-21 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Han-Wen! Han-Wen Nienhuys schrieb: ... a quick glance at a real score shows me that they should be centered horizontally anyway... I think horizontally-centered as well as left-aligned should be okay. Right-aligned looks at bit uneven to me. Kind regards, Thies Albrecht _

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
D Josiah Boothby wrote: Is it possible that if fontforge was compiled without support for svg that this sort of problem might exist? If that is the case, then it might be a packaging issue. unlikely, as we're not putting the SVG fonts inside the svg output anyway. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAI

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-21 Thread Steve D
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:56:55PM -0700, Steve D wrote: > For LilyPond manual, 2.7 series, section 6.2.3, Transpose: > Suggestion: > Consider a part written for violin (a C instrument). If this part is to > be played on the A clarinet (for which an A is notated as a C, and which > sounds a minor t

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-21 Thread Pedro Kröger
D Josiah Boothby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible that if fontforge was compiled without support for svg > that this sort of problem might exist? If that is the case, then it > might be a packaging issue. I don't think so. It seems to be a problem with inkscape itself. for instance, f

Using lyrics

2006-02-21 Thread Bryan Stanbridge
Greetings, I've read TFM and yet I think I may not have the proper grasp on how to use lyrics. Here's a small example to illustrate what I'm doing. Hopefully I'm just making a simple mistake. \version "2.7.35" % Windows XPSP2, Native install \score { \new Staff { \context Voice = "mezzo"

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-21 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Is it possible that if fontforge was compiled without support for svg that this sort of problem might exist? If that is the case, then it might be a packaging issue. Josiah On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Pedro Kröger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pedro Kröger) writes: Hi, Some

Re: Note for manual, thanks for features

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Feb-06, at 7:03 PM, Steve D wrote: To Graham Percival, for the LilyPond manual: in section 6.1.10, Tuplets, under "Commonly Tweaked Properties," there is an example that includes "#(ly:make-moment 1 4)" (without the double-quotes). You may want to provide a brief explanation within that e

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Feb-06, at 7:12 PM, Steve D wrote: The graphical example doesn't seem to accurately illustrate the code above it. The stems for notes on the middle line of the staff all point down, despite "\override Stem #'neutral-direction = #up" (or #down). Thanks! BTW, such reports can be sent dir

Note for manual

2006-02-21 Thread Steve D
For LilyPond manual, 2.7 series, section 6.2.3, Transpose: Current: Consider a part written for violin (a C instrument). If this part is to be played on the A clarinet, the following transposition will produce the appropriate part \transpose a c ... Suggestion: Consider a part written for viol

V/, R/

2006-02-21 Thread Don Blaheta
Has anybody developed a macro for making the V and R with slashes used in church music to indicate priest/deacon/cantor parts on the one hand and congregation parts on the other? -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]-=- "I believe that there are UFOs; I just don't know who's drivin

Note for manual, thanks for features

2006-02-21 Thread Steve D
Just several comments-- To Graham Percival, for the LilyPond manual: in section 6.1.10, Tuplets, under "Commonly Tweaked Properties," there is an example that includes "#(ly:make-moment 1 4)" (without the double-quotes). You may want to provide a brief explanation within that example as to what ex