Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not look at all the full examples available at mutopia (http://www.mutopiaproject.org/) ? The general principles of setting up files for a score plus instrumental parts is described in an example in the Tutorial. /Mats Charles Cave wrote: Graham, I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion a

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipi

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
Thanks a lot Kieren! My instrument names got centered thanks to your help! Merci encore, Amélie Original Message Follows From: Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Amélie Aubut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Three more questions: centered instr. n

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Cave
Graham, I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion and I am willing to contribute some examples. I am really struggling to learn enough about Lilypond to create a simple cello + piano accompaniment score. The resulting output would be the cello part, and the piano part. The Lilypond has a lot of de

Re: finding first page of score in scheme

2006-06-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to display something in the footer of the first (and last) > pages of each score in a book. > > My current thought is to create a function (called at the beginning of > each score) that records the page number into some global variable(s), > a

Three questions

2006-06-28 Thread Gilles QUESNE
  Hi everybody!I'm using lilypond version 2.8.5 I would like to know how to move the _expression_ "III. a" at the line 45 of my Text01_ExtraitProblemVoix1.ly joint Trois questions: Three questions: A) Comment réduire les espaces entre: How does we do dwindle the spaces between: l'élé

compile problem with 2.8.4

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: I recently upgraded my Debian Etch system (Demudi 1.3) and discovered that my home-built LP 2.8.1 failed with a report concerning Guile. I decided to compile 2.8.4 and got the same report near the end of the build : Parsing...[/home/dlphilp/lilypond-2.8.4/out/share/lilypond/curren

Re: Moving a word at the beginning of a chart ?

2006-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Joe: Recently I have tried notating music with Lilypond. I have to say it's been a very frustrating and arduous experience. Sorry to hear that -- I used Finale for over a decade, Igor Engraver for several years, and even Sibelius for a little while, but find Lilypond to be far less frust

Moving a word at the beginning of a chart ?

2006-06-28 Thread joelinux
Hello, I have a college degree in Music History, taught public school music, and play several instruments. I did back up tracks for about seven years using six computer controlled synthesizers. I have been using Linux for at least 5 years. Recently I have tried notating music with Lilypond.

Re: Strange behaviour of breakbefore option

2006-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Gianluca D. wrote: So, trying on a little test file, I've discovered that "breakbefore" apparently works only if "piece" string is set, and this string can't be an empty one. Yes, please see the "Bugs" section of the documentation about breakbefore. Cheers, - Graham

Strange behaviour of breakbefore option

2006-06-28 Thread Gianluca D.
Hi everybody! I'm using lilypond version 2.8.4. I was trying to use the "breakbefore" option in the "header" block inside a "score" to make the second score of my book start on a new page, but I couldn't afford it. So, trying on a little test file, I've discovered that "breakbefore" apparent

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version "2.9.9" KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something t

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
AmXlie Aubut wrote: 2) If the modern clefs were right beside the double bar (instead of beeing apart from it). I guess this as something to do with the skips needed so that the new clefs get printed after the double bar, but I can't see what I can do to get rid of that huge space between

Re: Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Bonjour, Amélie! 1) If I could get the instrument names (Superius, Contratenor, etc...) to be centered Take a look at . Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ian Hawthorn wrote: > ... 5. This bit of the song is in unison and needs only one staff. In addition to the answers you have already received, this situation is often easiest handled by the technique described in "Hiding Staves" in the manual. Then, LilyPond will automatically avoid printin

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Ian Hawthorn wrote: 1. An extra lyric line is needed for harmony parts for a few bars. 2. An extra staff and lyric line for a soloist is required for one section. To add an extra staff, look up "ossia". It works something like this: { c4 c c c << {c4 c c c} \new

Three more questions: centered instr. names / neomensural noteheads / incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
My sheet of music would be Perfect: 1) If I could get the instrument names (Superius, Contratenor, etc...) to be centered, instead of being right-align as they are righ now. I tried to do: \set Staff.instrument = \markup{ \right-align "Superius"} for each instrument name, but it did not work

how to remove system start bracket from the incipit

2006-06-28 Thread Am�lie Aubut
Hi everybody, I am having a hard time trying to remove the system start bracket from the first system. I am transcribing mensural music and I don't want the incipit (written with mensural note-heads) to start with modern brackets! I tried to do it by using: \once \override Staff.SystemStart

RE: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Anthony Youngman
That sort of works ... but if Ian wants what I want, then it's a lot more work than just that ... This would be a very good example for Fairchild's "AllAbout"s. Certainly, until I clean it up, my version is a mess. I've got a linebreak at the barline where my ossia starts ... with the result that

Re: Some general comments

2006-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Ian Hawthorn wrote: 1. An extra lyric line is needed for harmony parts for a few bars. 2. An extra staff and lyric line for a soloist is required for one section. To add an extra staff, look up "ossia". It works something like this: { c4 c c c << {c4 c c c} \new Staff { e4 e e e } >> c4 c c

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version "2.9.9" KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something t