Re: Include date?

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
It looks like great trick; could you add it to LSR so that it's easier for other people to find? Thanks, - Graham On 5-Apr-06, at 2:55 PM, Bart Kummel wrote: Thanks a lot! This simply works. And it's flexible too, since I can manipulate the %d-%m-%Y string! Bart Kummel On 4/5/06, Toine

Re: lilypond-book: where are my noteheads?

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Apr-06, at 8:15 PM, bernie arai wrote: btw, thanks for letting me know that the DVI viewer won't show the noteheads, but the pdf should. that would be really helpful in the user's guide. i kept looking at the dvi and assumed the problem must be somewhere before that in the chain, but i

Cross-staff slur

2006-04-08 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm trying to get a cross-staff slur within a PianoStaff. I didn't find any easy ways of doing this in the manual (I'm still using 2.6.5) and so have tried to fudge it by putting all the notes I need slurred in one voice and then putting the \change Staff command within the Voice context. My

time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

2006-04-08 Thread Graydon
In 2.7.10 I used: [this is the opening measure of The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar; there are bunches of stuff before this invoking default.ly which has bagpipe.ly in it, and providing header information.] { % this is a bagpipe music default \hideKeySignature % set time \time 2/4 % set

define-music-function help

2006-04-08 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi list, I am trying to generate a music-function to make ^\markup { \musicglyph #timesig.C44 \vcenter 1 } for me any time, and the function should receive a string to be placed where 1 is writed. Is this possible ? if it is how can I do it ? or where can I find documentation about it ? Thanks in

Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual

2006-04-08 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Ok I can make some sense of that but Heads up to Graham in section 6.7.2 the 3rd example has exactly what I'm trying to do and there is no mention of needing a \partial at the end of the first set of repeats. Jay Carrick Patterson wrote: You have to do a \partial on the last measure of the

Weird slurs

2006-04-08 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, in the following piece of code, the slurs should look approximately the same - but they don't. %Begin code \version 2.8.1 \relative c { \clef bass \key c \major \time 4/4 c8( d' a d c, d' a d) c,( des' as des c, des' as des) } %End code How to fix this? I'm absolute beginner in

Re: stereo pan

2006-04-08 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:39, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You will probably need some other MIDI tool to postprocess the output of LilyPond. Why not mention midge, a text-based GNU midi editor? Adjusting velocities (volume) and such is very quick and easy. daveA -- Free download of technical

compound time signature with split measure

2006-04-08 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.8 ; Mac OS X ] Hello, all! What's the easiest way to engrave a compound time signature (CTS) like 2+3 / 4 and split the measure (i.e., with a dotted barline)? Unfortunately, the example CTS hack outputs 2/4 + 3/4 (not what I want), and if I have to hack the measure split

Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual

2006-04-08 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual If you look at it carefully, the same thing is happening in your example and the example in the manual: The partial measure at the end of the first ending is continued and completed in the first measure of the

Re: problems while building 2.8

2006-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Guy Durrieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With 2.8, I experience new problems : - I cannot produce the man pages. help2man complains help2man: can't get `--help' info from convert-ly.py If you're using a version of python older than 2.4(?), you need to download subprocess.py and place it in

Re: time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

2006-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To get a |: printed at the start of the piece, use an explicit \bar |:. To get time signatures before bar lines instead of after, you can do \override Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders = #(make-vector 3 '(left-edge ambitus breathing-sign clef time-signature

Re: time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

2006-04-08 Thread Sven Axelsson
Look at that! That actually did the trick. Great! Though, I still think it is better not to do this, but leave it at the defautl of no initial repeat sign in this case. -- Sven Axelsson On 08/04/06, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get a |: printed at the start of the piece, use an

Re: before-title-space with piece only

2006-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.8.0 Should I expect before-title-space to work between the end a system and a header consistently only of piece? I'm not sure to understand the question, but here is an answer :) It seems that the rule for spacing systems/lines is the following (at

Re: The organ template works fine now but ....

2006-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't think that helps, since PianoStaff sets a fixed spacing between its staves. I would recommend the following solution, which in a way is easier than what I initially proposed, namely to use a PianoStaff only for the manual staves and enclose all three staves in a GrandStaff. The only

Re: The organ template works fine now but ....

2006-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't think that helps, since PianoStaff sets a fixed spacing between its staves. I would recommend the following solution, which in a way is easier than what I initially proposed, namely to use a PianoStaff only for the manual staves and enclose all three staves in a GrandStaff. The only

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Carrick Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read and re-read this part of the manual for weeks, and experimented around and I cannot get it to work unless it also contains a music expression. All the examples have the padding variable or whatever it is defined using

Re: define-music-function help

2006-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, I am trying to generate a music-function to make ^\markup { \musicglyph #timesig.C44 \vcenter 1 } for me any time, and the function should receive a string to be placed where 1 is writed. Is this possible ? if it is how can I do it ? or

Re: compound time signature with split measure

2006-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: [ Lilypond 2.8 ; Mac OS X ] Hello, all! What's the easiest way to engrave a compound time signature (CTS) like 2+3 / 4 and split the measure (i.e., with a dotted barline)? Unfortunately, the example CTS hack outputs 2/4 + 3/4 (not what I want), Well,

Re: compound time signature with split measure

2006-04-08 Thread Dave K.
Well, then you have to figure out how to typeset the time signature you want, using text markup. Is this really ideal? Wouldn't it be better for Lilypond to be able to typeset these kinds of time signatures? They're not as uncommon as you might think. There are several styles: 6+5 / 8 6/8 +

Re: before-title-space with piece only

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Scott
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.8.0 Should I expect before-title-space to work between the end a system and a header consistently only of piece? I'm not sure to understand the question, but here is an answer :) It seems that the rule for spacing

Re: compound time signature with split measure

2006-04-08 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Mats: The bar numbering shouldn't be any problem, since if you insert a \bar :, it won't affect the bar numbering. Good to know -- thanks! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I stumbled on another weird thing with 2.8.1 on Windows. After processing following code, I get two extra beats: %Begin code \version 2.8.1 \relative c''' { \clef treble \key g \major \time 3/4 R1 R1 r4 r g } %End code Am I doing something wrong? Tomas Valusek

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 1:52 PM, Tomas Valusek wrote: \time 3/4 R1 R1 r4 r g } %End code Am I doing something wrong? You want to use R2. R1 produces 4 beats, just like r1. R2. produces 3 beats. I'll clarify this in the docs. Cheers, - Graham ___

Re: Weird slurs

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 7:30 AM, Tomas Valusek wrote: %Begin code \version 2.8.1 \relative c { \clef bass \key c \major \time 4/4 c8( d' a d c, d' a d) c,( des' as des c, des' as des) } %End code How to fix this? I'm absolute beginner in LilyPond and this is a small snippet of my first

is possible to set fingerOrientation for one voice ?

2006-04-08 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi lilypond list, I was wondering if it is possible to set fingerOrientation to one voice, I had re written Bach BourreƩ and I am having some trouble to set finger orientation, I got fingers on every compass and set position one by one is real hard, considering that I want the full melody to get

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Tomas - seems like 2.8 is much pickier than in the past and so if you have a time signature of 3/4 all the 'whole measure' rests have to be dotted half rests instead of whole (note) type rests. Jay Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, I stumbled on another weird thing with 2.8.1 on Windows. After

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 4:41 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Tomas - seems like 2.8 is much pickier than in the past and so if you have a time signature of 3/4 all the 'whole measure' rests have to be dotted half rests instead of whole (note) type rests. This is incorrect information.

Re: ADV: Re: time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

2006-04-08 Thread Graydon
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:56:28PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson scripsit: To get a |: printed at the start of the piece, use an explicit \bar |:. I've been using \set Timing.whichBar = |: to (so far as I understand it) over-ride the default Timing value of 'no bar' for the initial bar, which looks

removing first system with partial bar

2006-04-08 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.8 ; Mac OS X ] Hello, Lily-dippers! Just wondering how I can remove empty staves of the first system of a score when the first measure is a \partial. Because I can't use R to fill the partial bar (Lilypond makes me use r explicitly, or complains about ), the measure is not

Re: ADV: Re: time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

2006-04-08 Thread Geoff Horton
Many pipe tunes have an initial partial bar and a final partial bar in the measure, which should between them total an entire bar. Is there an existing way to barcheck this by telling lilypond that the first partial and the final partial should be considered together? I'm not aware of one,

Re: compound time signature with split measure

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 12:38 PM, Dave K. wrote: Well, then you have to figure out how to typeset the time signature you want, using text markup. Is this really ideal? Wouldn't it be better for Lilypond to be able to typeset these kinds of time signatures? They're not as uncommon as you might think.

Re: removing first system with partial bar

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 6:56 PM, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Just wondering how I can remove empty staves of the first system of a score when the first measure is a \partial. Because I can't use R to fill the partial bar (Lilypond makes me use r explicitly, or complains about ), the measure is

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, and thanks for your help. You want to use R2. R1 produces 4 beats, just like r1. R2. produces 3 beats. I'll clarify this in the docs. But the point of whole-bar rest is that composer/copyist doesn't need to care about time signature when using them - at least, that's what I

Re: Spacing between adjacent \lyrics?

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Apr-06, at 9:48 AM, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Is there a document or appendix that simply lists all reserved words that could possibly occur in an .ly document and their definition, and what type of constant or funtion or macro, etc. the reserved word is, also if it's been

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 8:13 PM, Tomas Valusek wrote: You want to use R2. R1 produces 4 beats, just like r1. R2. produces 3 beats. I'll clarify this in the docs. But the point of whole-bar rest is that composer/copyist doesn't need to care about time signature when using them - at least, that's

Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Apr-06, at 7:26 AM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Ok I can make some sense of that but Heads up to Graham in section 6.7.2 the 3rd example has exactly what I'm trying to do and there is no mention of needing a \partial at the end of the first set of repeats. Huh? If you are