Re: Embedding lily pdfs in InDesign

2006-08-25 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: Does anyone have any experience successfully embedding lily pdf output Didn't we discuss this a few days ago on -devel? ... at least, did you follow all the steps that were suggested for .eps files? There's even a doc section (14.8) about this issue, but it's not online

Embedding lily pdfs in InDesign

2006-08-25 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Does anyone have any experience successfully embedding lily pdf output in InDesign? I start by creating a new InDesign doc and then placing the lily-generated pdf in the InDesign doc. Just to test I then export as pdf, and the results are pretty bad. Staff lines, ledger lines, beams and hair

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > With my last patch (which I sent a few weeks ago but without response -- > > was it lost?), 'articulations is converted to a stream event list when > > music is converted to event. Also, music_cause is eliminated. Sh

Re: Problem with \char #65 ???

2006-08-25 Thread Graham Percival
Ben Hoefer wrote: Hi, how does \char #integer work? (See chapter 8.1.6 of the LilyPond Guide.) Whenever I use something like copyright = \markup { \char #169 } This is the right syntax, but there was a bug. This is fixed in the latest version (2.9.16). Cheers, - Graham __

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Werner, would you be willing to split the sponsorship of this > > feature with me 50%/50%? > > Yes, but it will take some time -- first, I'm just returning from a > longer trip to Austria, and second, I don't have a Paypal account yet. Obviously, this is now obsolete -- pfffew :-) Werne

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread yota moteuchi
should I fill a feature request to have long dynamic indications (the textual part, not the dashed line one) automatically splitted to the next staff when the text goes out of the page ? like this : http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilypondfi4.pngbecause if I do the line break manually, wh

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> SO-- > > would mean that only the c and b-flat would be tied > > ~ would mean that the whole chord would be tied > > ~ would mean--well, LilyPond would issue an error message? > The whole-chord tie would take precedence? ;-) > > Werner, would you be willing to split the sponsorship of this >

Re: forcing even eighth notes in a single bar

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ v. 2.9.15 ] Hello, all -- I've got a bar of vocal (choral) text which ends up looking a bit uneven: An alternative to the proposals you already have received is to add a setting like \override LyricText #'minimum-X-extent = #'(0 . 5) in yo

Re: Jazz Fonts

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting "David A. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recent convert to Lilypond - great work! I see that questions about jazz or "ink pen" fonts have come up several times over the years. Responses seem to be one of the following forms: - Theoretically, Lily can use other fonts but getting it to wo

Re: Midi block syntax?

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strange! When I converted the following file \version "2.9.15" \midi{\tempo 4=104} using convert-ly from 2.9.16, the result was: \version "2.9.16" \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 104 4) } } /Mats Quoting Thomas Scharkowski <[EMAIL PR

Re: Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Scott
yota moteuchi wrote: concerning the bars you may use a "global" part containing only skips and bars you can then combine them as you wish (in a part or for all the parts). have a look at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV1068/bach-air/bach-air-lys.zip or http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.

Jazz Fonts

2006-08-25 Thread David A. Greene
Recent convert to Lilypond - great work! I see that questions about jazz or "ink pen" fonts have come up several times over the years. Responses seem to be one of the following forms: - Theoretically, Lily can use other fonts but getting it to work is "a lot of effort." - These fonts are not

Re: Slur Control Points over page breaks?

2006-08-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Stewart: Is there any way of dealing with slurs over page breaks? Check out . Replace Tie with Slur, 'extra-offset with 'control-points, etc. Good luck! Kieren. _

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread Henrik Frisk
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I personally like the extra-offset property since it allows me to move > > an object in any way with only one command. I would assume that 'padding' > > and 'center-align' properties would also work. > > I h

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I personally like the extra-offset property since it allows me to move an object in any way with only one command. I would assume that 'padding' and 'center-align' properties would also work. I hope you know that there is an important difference between

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread Henrik Frisk
yota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is such a dynamic indication a TextScript or a DynamicText or something else > ?... I tried some tweaks but everything failed. > At the bottom of this page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Dynamics.html#Dynamics I found the answer to yo

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread yota moteuchi
ok I got ityou're right... with a centered alignment, the dynamic indication become too imprecise to be readable. But putting the text on two lines give a nice result.\set crescendoText = \markup{\italic \column {\line {poco a poco} {cresc.} }}     \set crescendoSpanner = #'dashed-line     r4  \ti

Re: Accidentals tied over a line break

2006-08-25 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: In the source code, I found a comment saying: TODO: insert support for smaller cautionaries, tie-break-reminders. ... which indicates that this is a feature that is not yet implemented. I made some quick attempts to solve the problem by redefining Accidental #'after-line-br

Re: Accidentals tied over a line break

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the source code, I found a comment saying: TODO: insert support for smaller cautionaries, tie-break-reminders. ... which indicates that this is a feature that is not yet implemented. I made some quick attempts to solve the problem by redefining Accidental #'after-line-breaking but didn't manag

Re: tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
yota wrote: Hi, I have some notes where a "poco a poco cresc." must be inserted... so I put \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "poco a poco cresc." } \set crescendoSpanner = #'dashed-line r4 \times 2/3 { a8->( \accent \< bes a) \!} r4 and it worked, but the text is too long, it goes ov

Re: Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-08-25 Thread Markus Schneider
You can also use \addquote and filter only desired events using Staff.quotedEventTypes. (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Quoting-other-voic es.html#Quoting-other-voices) In pseudo code this would look like this: somevoice = { } partWithAllMarksAndStuff = {} \addquote fr

Re: Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-08-25 Thread yota moteuchi
concerning the bars you may use a "global" part containing only skips and barsyou can then combine them as you wish (in a part or for all the parts).have a look at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV1068/bach-air/bach-air-lys.zipor http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/input/mutopia/E.Satie/pe

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: With my last patch (which I sent a few weeks ago but without response -- was it lost?), 'articulations is converted to a stream event list when music is converted to event. Also, music_cause is eliminated. Should I resend the patch? yes, I think I lost it in the din. --

Printing tempo marks on every part

2006-08-25 Thread Andrew Black - lists
I would like to specify things like tempo marks, double bars, rehearsal makrs in one part only (say piano part) but print them on very part. I want to print as below but only have to specify the details in one part == (Vn 1 part: ) Andante ... [A] ..

Re: Clef Markup

2006-08-25 Thread yota moteuchi
I guess thishttp://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-marks.htmlanswer to your question On 8/25/06, Kamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can one print a markup over a clef sign? ___lilypond-user mailing listlilypond-user@gnu.org h

Clef Markup

2006-08-25 Thread Kamal
How can one print a markup over a clef sign? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Midi block syntax?

2006-08-25 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
I tried to convert a 2.9.15 file using convert-ly before I sent the message to the list: no change! But... conversion works with older files! Thomas > Did you try to upgrade the syntax using convert-ly? > Normally, such changes should also be present in the > NEWS file, but it seems that the new

Re: Midi block syntax?

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you try to upgrade the syntax using convert-ly? Normally, such changes should also be present in the NEWS file, but it seems that the new method to specify MIDI tempo hasn't made it there. /Mats Thomas Scharkowski wrote: LilyPond 2.9.16, Windows XP I get the following error messang: err

tweak of the crescendotext

2006-08-25 Thread yota
Hi, I have some notes where a "poco a poco cresc." must be inserted... so I put \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "poco a poco cresc." } \set crescendoSpanner = #'dashed-line r4 \times 2/3 { a8->( \accent \< bes a) \!} r4 and it worked, but the text is too long, it goes over the end of

Midi block syntax?

2006-08-25 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
LilyPond 2.9.16, Windows XP I get the following error messang: error: syntax error, unexpected \tempo \midi { \tempo 4=104} Has the syntax changed since 2.9.15? Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Changing TimeSignature numerator and denominator

2006-08-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Actually, the order matters as well, so my solution works if you keep the property setting after the \time command (which internally also sets the same property in the Timing context, among others). /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Oops. You were basically right, Mats. Here's a bit that works: %%%

Re: Accidentals tied over a line break

2006-08-25 Thread Marcus Macauley
Markus: That's a way to manually suppress accidentals after a line break; thanks. But I need a way to do it automatically. > Is the example in "Section 9.3.7: Difficult Tweaks" of any help? Kieren: That looks like it might be helpful, but I don't understand the syntax well enough to adapt the