Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Apr-06, at 10:36 PM, Michael Brennan wrote: David Feuer wrote: On 4/19/06, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, which is visible for end-users: the \tweak command only makes sense on layout object propertie

Contexts (Was Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused)

2006-04-26 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, When I first read the manual I didn't see any clear explanation of the difference, the docs could be more clear on that point. But when I realized that one was for grobs and the other for context, it became much clearer, for me it helps separating and understanding grobs and contexts.

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] when I realized that one was for grobs and the other for > context, it became much clearer, for me it helps separating and > understanding grobs and contexts. A big help would be a simple means to distinguish grobs and context properties. For example, context property names could always

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Michael Brennan
David Feuer wrote: On 4/19/06, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, which is visible for end-users: the \tweak command only makes sense on layout object properties, not on context properties. This difference migh

accordion dissCant

2006-04-26 Thread Marcel Campenhout
I want to put in the symbol voor the disscant for the accordion. In the installed .ly example file's I found the text for it.If I do " \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"accDiscantEEE" } it runs without errors but the sign isn't there. Also --^\markup {musicglypyh ,,    ,,, ,,   ,}. What must I do to ge

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Geoff Horton
> > In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, > > which is visible for end-users: the \tweak command only makes sense on > > layout > > object properties, not on context properties. This difference might make it > > easier for new users to understand grob properti

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context > > properties, which is visible for end-users: the \tweak command > > only makes sense on layout object properties, not on context > > properties. This difference might make it easier for new users to > > understand grob properti

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread David Feuer
On 4/19/06, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, > which is visible for end-users: the \tweak command only makes sense on layout > object properties, not on context properties. This difference might make it > easier

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Jennifer Clark
Mats Bengtsson wrote: In contrast to the previous people who answered the questions, I would say that you cannot directly apply the same idea to move a whole line of chords. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-03/msg00411.html for a hint on how to solve the problem. Thank

Re: LilyPond-book WinXP again...

2006-04-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-04/msg00363.html /Mats Quoting Michal Vopalensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I am using the LilyPond 2.8.1 on WinXP Home Edition. I have installed it running the lilypond-2.8.1-4.mingw.exe file, downloaded from the LilyPond website. I

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In contrast to the previous people who answered the questions, I would say that you cannot directly apply the same idea to move a whole line of chords. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-03/msg00411.html for a hint on how to solve the problem. /Mats Quoting Jennifer Cla

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-26 Thread Geoff Horton
> \define-music-function {\foo \x \y} { c8 \x d8 \y } > ... > { \foo e16 {f g} } > => > { c8 e16 d8 {f16 g16} } > > The usefulness of this kind of function is disputed among developers, so it > might not become part of the official lilypond distribution. I am not a developer (though I do read the

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 07 April 2006 00:50, Geoff Horton wrote: > > Just read sections 11.1.3 and 11.1.6 in the manual. > > That's far more complicated than I want, and even further more > complicated than a musician who's not a computer programmer is going > to want to deal with--please note that those section

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:56, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > \set: set the value of a context property > > \override: set the value of a layout object property > > I've always wondered why it isn't possible to unify them... In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties,

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Apr-06, at 7:30 AM, Jennifer Clark wrote: Sorry for answering my own post, but I have found something that may be relevant; in the manual, it says you can move about items through use of the extra-offset, e.g. for markup text, which seems quite effective; \once \override TextScript

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Eduardo Vieira
- Original Message - From: "Jennifer Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff > > Sorry for answering my own post, but I have found something that may be > relevant; in the manual,

Re: Boxes and bars

2006-04-26 Thread Eduardo Vieira
I, a beginner too, and maybe others don't really understand your need, but here are my guesses (I hope someone else will help too). My first advice is to upgrade your version of Lilypond. :) About item 2: You might find answers in 8.4.1 Polymetric notation. Also if you use \set Score.defaultBarType

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Jennifer Clark
Jennifer Clark wrote: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: This should be simple but I cant find an answer after exhaustive tries. How can I attach a bit of markup text immediately to the left of the first chord in a ChordNames context staff? Did anyone reply to this? I have a similar requir

Re: Boxes and bars

2006-04-26 Thread c . m . bryan
Hello all, I sent a message to the list a couple of days ago and never heard anything back, I'm just wondering if the message actually went through, because it seems like people here are good at responding :) So here it is again, my apologies if I'm double-posting... --- If anyo

LilyPond-book WinXP again...

2006-04-26 Thread Michal Vopalensky
Hi, I am using the LilyPond 2.8.1 on WinXP Home Edition. I have installed it running the lilypond-2.8.1-4.mingw.exe file, downloaded from the LilyPond website. I have not intalled anything more, like Cygwin, for instance. TeX was already installed on my system. The program works well, but when I

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Jennifer Clark
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: This should be simple but I cant find an answer after exhaustive tries. How can I attach a bit of markup text immediately to the left of the first chord in a ChordNames context staff? Did anyone reply to this? I have a similar requirement as well, i.e. if I

Re: uncertain about MIDI dynamic scaling

2006-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-Apr-06, at 4:36 AM, Sean Reed wrote: Is there documentation somewhere on how the .midiMinimumVolume and .midiMaximum values specifically effect the velocity scaling? I expected it to scale #0.0=0 to #1.0=127, but I discovered that you can go above 1.0 and below 0.0 into negative values.

Re: Pitched trill?

2006-04-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Panteck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a way to do this in Lilypond (2.8)? I've looked at the \pitchedTrill command, but that specifies a note to trill to, and I'd rather just specify sharp, flat, or natural in the trill line. --Steven You can redefine what is printed at the beginn

Re: 2.9.2 octavation dashes not cancelled and more but not in 2.8.1-4

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 25-Apr-06, at 6:36 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Just the addition of #(set-octavation 1) causes the rest of the staff lines to be dashed. (commenting that line restores the solid staff lines.) Example later if necessary. I'm trying to get some parts o

Re: 2.9.2 octavation dashes not cancelled and more but not in 2.8.1-4

2006-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-Apr-06, at 6:36 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Just the addition of #(set-octavation 1) causes the rest of the staff lines to be dashed. (commenting that line restores the solid staff lines.) Example later if necessary. I'm trying to get some parts out right away. This pro