More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-26 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Han-Wen and Lilyponders, I am looking at the potential to sponsor more changes to the figured bass system. While the figured bass system is comphrehensive and looks good it's placement within a score that needs adjusting. There is often a wide a gap between the staff and the figures when using

Re: key signature dosen't work

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-May-06, at 9:57 PM, IMAI Yuji wrote: I got 2.9.6-1 binary for Windows. And I found key signature dosen't work. Yes, this is a known bug. The 2.9 version is the unstable/development version; issues like this crop up from time to time. For normal use, we recommend using the 2.8

Lilypond engine getting stuck...

2006-05-26 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm using version 2.8.3I've run into a problem with Lilypond getting "stuck" on a file. The score uses relatively complex rhythms combined with text, and I gave up on trying to use \lyricsto - there were just too many melismata that I had to override etc. Instead I've just inserted all the

Re: connecting arpeggio

2006-05-26 Thread Ketil Mehl
On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:54:50 +0200, Georges Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two voices and want to connect the arpeggio have something like this { b-0 b'-24\arpeggio} \\ { e-18.\arpeggio} \set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t dont seem to work The PianoStaff statement has no

Re: lilypond-book fragment with ties/slurs continuing over the end of the fragment

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-May-06, at 4:04 AM, Vaclav Smilauer wrote: I tried to typeset fragments that have slurs and ties that continue to the part of music that is not in the fragment. The fragments are block-aligned; I would like to produce the slur/tie as if the fragment was line-broken at the end, but

Re: raise text in Scheme

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-May-06, at 10:37 AM, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: One last thing I can't seem to do is build into the Scheme definition itself the X-offset of the hybrid dynamic. I'd like things like mf dolce to be essentially left-aligned, things like poco f to be essentially center-aligned, etc.

Re: Inital barnumber?

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-May-06, at 9:27 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On 23-May-06, at 2:29 PM, Christian Conkle wrote: I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a musicological document with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set

Re: raise text in Scheme

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Graham: mpdolce = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0) #:line( #:dynamic mp #:text #:italic dolce ))) Thanks for the suggestion, but I had already tried the same thing (that's what is in the docs), and was disappointed by the result -- q.v., the

Re: More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Meixner
Trent Johnston reef_tj at hotmail.com writes: Hi Han-Wen and Lilyponders, I am looking at the potential to sponsor more changes to the figured bass ... I second this and would gladly participate in sponsoring this. I've included an example image.. taken from the Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher

thickness staff lines

2006-05-26 Thread Michel Fayard
Hello, I am a recently user of Lilypond 2.8.2, and I am searching how to change thickness of the staff lines or other lines (stems, slurs, ties, bar lines... ) before printing. Thanks for your help ! ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Thickness staff lines and other lines

2006-05-26 Thread Michel Fayard
Hello, I am a recently user of Lilypond 2.8.2, and I'm searching how to change thickness of the staff lines and other lines (stems, slurs, ties, bar lines...). Thanks for your help ! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Fingering Type Size

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Carrick: Well, that worked just great. Thanks a lot. My pleasure! I never would have guessed how the size increment divisions worked without your help, as it seems a bit counter-intuitive to me. It is counter-intuitive if you think of them literally as divisions -- in that case, it

Re: Thickness staff lines and other lines

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-May-06, at 5:49 AM, Michel Fayard wrote: I am a recently user of Lilypond 2.8.2, and I'm searching how to change thickness of the staff lines and other lines (stems, slurs, ties, bar lines...). Read chapter 9 Changing defaults. - Graham

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-26 Thread Matthijs Frankena
Hello, With regard to the questions I posed a few days ago: - the first question has been solved with \hspace (something I thought I had already tried out, but apparently not correctly). The code now says: poet = \markup { \hspace #10 \center-align { Words by MORE OF THAT POET } } without the

multiple \mark items on a single measure

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all -- The code included below clearly doesn't do the right thing, i.e., in the final measure, I want to have a fermata over the (leading) barline and then the tempo indication, but Lilypond appears to ignore (or, at least, replace) all but the last \mark it encounters. Is there

Re: multiple \mark items on a single measure

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen
My first reponse is of course you can have only one mark per barline. Try combining everything in one \mark statement. Perhaps if you placed each mark in a separate layer it could work, but Lilypond can't know what priority each mark gets otherwise. Stephen From: Kieren Richard MacMillan

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen
The double bar-line followed by a repeat bar-line is significant for many. Every 32-bar song form of the Twentieth Century needs a double bar-line after the 4-bar intro and/or adouble bar-line afterthe 16-bar verse, followed by a 32-bar chorus with repeats and an alternative. The slur on

dotted phrasing slurs

2006-05-26 Thread Monk Panteleimon
Dear friends, How can I make a dotted phrasing slur? I have tried \phrasingSlurDotted and also several wild guesses beginning with \once \override Slur... Using \slurDotted before a phrasing slur makes the next non-phrasing slur to be dotted. I looked in the user archive, but encountered only

Re: multiple \mark items on a single measure

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Scott
Stephen wrote: My first reponse is of course you can have only one mark per barline. Try combining everything in one \mark statement. Right (AFAIK) The multiple marks would have to be in one markup, either side by side or vertically stacked (\column). Paul Scott

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Matthijs: - the last bar of the repeat before the alternative endings ends with a note with a slur. The slur is finished properly on the first note of the first alternative, but not so in the second alternative. Just adding a ) does not help, Lilypond complains about not being able

Re: More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trent Johnston schreef: Hi Han-Wen and Lilyponders, I am looking at the potential to sponsor more changes to the figured bass system. While the figured bass system is comphrehensive and looks good it's placement within a score that needs adjusting. There is often a wide a gap between the staff

Re: More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael Meixner schreef: I've included an example image.. taken from the Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: Bärenreiter illustrating this. Also I was looking at making the numbers 10 / 11 / 12 as one symbol. This would make the numbers as in: Moreover I would propose to create some additional

Re: multiple \mark items on a single measure

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Stephen: My first reponse is of course you can have only one mark per barline. By of course do you mean *Lilypond* doesn't allow multiple, or *music* doesn't require multiple? ;-) Let's say I want a rehearsal letter (e.g., K) over a barline and then in the following measure have a

Re: Even and odd page-margins

2006-05-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Gianluca D. schreef: Hi everybody! I'd like to ask if anyone knows a way to set different margins for odd and even pages with Lilypond. I've tried to find some information from the manual of boh 2.8 and 2.9 version, but I couldn't find anything. I wouldn't like to use lilypond-book to achieve

Call for sponsorship: MusicXML

2006-05-26 Thread darius
Hello List, In the past few months, the MusicXML to Lilypond converter has been developed and improved significantly, sponsored by myself and several others (thanks a lot to this bunch, including Mark van den Borre and others... !!!) We are now facing an additional set of features that would

artificial harmonic function

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.9.5 ] Hello, all -- Has anyone built their own artificial (string) harmonic function? Specifically, I'm thinking something like \ah { c4 f c'' } to get the c (stopped note) in the given duration, the f (touched node) as a diamond-shaped note in the same chord (i.e., sharing

Re: artificial harmonic function

2006-05-26 Thread Trevor Bača
On 5/26/06, Kieren Richard MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Lilypond 2.9.5 ]Hello, all --Has anyone built their own artificial (string) harmonic function?Specifically, I'm thinking something like \ah { c4 f c'' }to get the c (stopped note) in the given duration, the f (touched node) as a

pageBreak fails

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I couldn't get \pageBreak to work consistently in 2.7.27 I was doing something like this example from the web site: title = Konzert Nr. 3 Es dur subtitle = für Horn und Orchester composer = Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) I had three movements, which I put into separate include

Re: pageBreak fails

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, James: I had three movements, which I put into separate include files. I wanted a page break between movement one and movement two. If you're using \book (implicitly or explicitly), use breakbefore = ##t in the header after the desired page break, e.g., \score { %% mvt 1

subdivided beams partially successful

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into subgroups of three. I.e. the top beam covers six stems, and there are two bottom beams, one for the first three notes and one for the second three

cues?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
My original contains cues: small notes (played by someone else) near the end of an extended rest that are there to help the player come back in at the right time. I suppose that my problem is that I don't know what such notes are called in Europe. I couldn't find cue in the index. thanks --

Re: subdivided beams partially successful

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, James: The easy way is to explicitly include a connected beam around the duration of a quarter note each time, q.v., the second set of six 16th notes in %% CODE SNIPPET BEGINS \version 2.9 \relative c'' { \set subdivideBeams = ##t \set Score.beatLength =

Re: cues?

2006-05-26 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, James: I couldn't find cue in the index. Look in the docs (User Manual), section 8.3 Orchestral Music. [BTW: I find the PDF version of the User Manual to be most helpful, because you can search for things like cue more easily...] Best, Kieren.

index glitch?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
While scrolling through the index I noticed an entry for The Feta Font alphabetized by The in the T section. There is no corresponding entry alphabetized by Feta in the F section. This seems wrong on both counts. -- - Jimmy Wilkinson

Re: More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-26 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it's possible to design new number glyphs, but it is _a lot_ of work. It's much easier to change the positioning of the slash for the 6 specifically. Have a look at slashed-digit in define-markup-commands.scm. I can also do it as a

Re: multiple \mark items on a single measure

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-May-06, at 10:34 AM, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Stephen: My first reponse is of course you can have only one mark per barline. Let's say I want a rehearsal letter (e.g., K) over a barline and then in the following measure have a tempo change markup -- an unbelievably common

Re: cues?

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-May-06, at 1:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: I couldn't find cue in the index. Added to CVS, thanks. - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: index glitch?

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-May-06, at 2:04 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: While scrolling through the index I noticed an entry for The Feta Font alphabetized by The in the T section. There is no corresponding entry alphabetized by Feta in the F section. What version? I can't see any The... entries in the index of