Re: Stacking lyrics above dynamics?

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One possibility is to typeset the dynamics in a context of its own, for example using the \Dynamics context definition from the example Piano centered dynamics in the manual. /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, Sane engraving rules position lyrics vertically below dynamics. Is there a way to

Re: How do I typeset this glissando?

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Do you mean something like \version 2.8.0 \relative c''{ a4*1/2 \glissando \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t \tiny e4*1/2 \normalsize c'4 b a } /Mats Christopher Culver wrote: In the score I am typesetting, glissandi are notated as a given pitch and duration (say, a4) followed by a

Re: Minimum padding after barlines for notes with accidentals?

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi all, string numbers are too close to the preceding grob all the time in natural spacing anyway (not only at a bar line), so \layout { \context { \Voice \override StringNumber #'minimum-X-extent = #'(-1.3 . 0.2) } } will do the trick. Also, I changed the function from the

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto with \partcombine. What exactly do you want to do? If you want to align one lyric line to one voice, and another

Re: How do I typeset this glissando?

2006-09-14 Thread Christopher Culver
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you mean something like \version 2.8.0 \relative c''{ a4*1/2 \glissando \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t \tiny e4*1/2 \normalsize c'4 b a } Yes, that does work, thank you. However, with that I have a problem in that if the first note is a

Re: How do I typeset this glissando?

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read in Scaling Durations in the manual to understand how my trick works. For a half note, you could do a2*1/2 \glissando \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t \tiny e4 ... The MIDI support in LilyPond is not intelligent enough to handle a glissando at all, so you will hear the start and end

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The problem is the alignment (centered or not) of syllables to note heads. Compare the 2nd and 4th line of lyrics in the following example: textI = \lyricmode {a4 bb ccc ddd } textII = \lyricmode {eee fff gg h } music = \relative c'{c d e f} \score{ \new Voice = m \music \new Lyrics

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: Citerar Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto with \partcombine. What exactly do you want to do? If you want to align one lyric line to one

Re: sponsorship offer: make chord-threshold settable

2006-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ted Walther wrote: What would it cost to make the chord-threshold variable in part-combiner.scm/determine-split-list be settable inside a .ly file? As Bret Whissle found out 2 years ago, the threshold of 8 is too small for hymn typesetting, but 12 works very nicely.

RE: Stacking lyrics above dynamics?

2006-09-14 Thread Anthony Youngman
Following up on that, is there any way of altering which way round other marks go? I certainly haven't hit the lyrics/dynamics problems (apart from Pennsylvania I haven't used lyrics :-), but the problem I have is accents and slurs. Lily seems to prefer to put accents above slurs, while most

Re: Stacking lyrics above dynamics?

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your question is completely unrelated to Trevor's, since Lyrics are typeset by a completely separate context (so his problem is equivalent to putting the dynamics of of stave below the next stave, when it comes to how LilyPond handles it). Your question is about different objects that are

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2006-09-14 Thread Jan Janovcik
Thanks a bunch for your suggestion, although not directly, it pointed me the right way to understanding how this whole thing really works. (what I had to realize was that in these situations I have to write out all the variants explicitly, like \tag #'one { f8[ f] } \tag #'two { f4 } \tag

figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread anders stenberg
Hi! Any easy way to get figures on top of Bass part in figuredbass not below as seems to be default? using Lily 2.8.4 Anders Stenberg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. However, you may also want to use \override BassFigureAlignment #'stacking-dir = #UP /Mats anders stenberg wrote: Hi! Any easy way to get figures on top of Bass part in figuredbass

Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.

2006-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Everyone, I've come across problem in moving the dot on a dotted note. I'm trying to move the dot to the right so as a note in voice 2 doesn't clash with the dot. Is there a way to do this? I've looked in the manual and I think this is the property I should be changing: DotColumn

Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How about \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(1 . 0) /Mats Trent Johnston wrote: Hi Everyone, I've come across problem in moving the dot on a dotted note. I'm trying to move the dot to the right so as a note in voice 2 doesn't clash with the dot. Is there a way to do this? I've

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Jan, you could use \partcombine to merge the heads. But I'm not quite sure, what you are trying to accomplish. If you want have diffenent voices at the same time in your input file, you also should look at \parallelMusic. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html Cheers,

Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Trent, DotColumn resides in the Staff context. You can find this from the DotColumn layout object in the program reference (lilypond-internals), click on the engraver link (here: Dot_column_engraver). There you can read: Dot_column_engraver is part of contexts: ... Staff ... HTH Markus

Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.

2006-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks!!! Trent - Original Message - From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows. | How about | \once \override Dots

Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows.

2006-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks!!1 hehe forgot to click onto the next link. Trent - Original Message - From: Markus Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Moving Dot on Dotted Note - Lilypond 2.9.17 Windows. | Hi Trent, | | DotColumn

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Laura Conrad
Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the Mats \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. This is true if you aren't using a \context PianoStaff. When I put that in to get the curly brackets, it all of a

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Laura Conrad wrote: Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the Mats \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. This is true if you aren't using a \context PianoStaff. When I put that in to get the

Using Slurs in Scheme Music Functions

2006-09-14 Thread pounderd
Hello List, Have been using LIlypond (v. 2.8.6) for a few weeks now and have managed to find the answer to most of my problems in the manual so far, but I have run into a problem probably stemming from my lack of experience with languages such as Scheme/LISP etc. and was hoping someone here might

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Ted Walther
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:08:42AM +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: Citerar Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto with \partcombine. What exactly do you want to do?

How to translate the Documentation?

2006-09-14 Thread Almási Kálmán
Hi! I am a very satisfied Hungarian user of Lilypond. I would like to translate some parts of the User manual to give it my friends, who can't read it in English. I would like to generate the original PDF file, but with my translated parts. How can I get the source of it? Thanks Kalman

Swing Midi

2006-09-14 Thread David Greene
Hi everyone, I searched the archives and found a few discussions about generating swing-feel MIDI from straight eighths Lily source but the most recent was from 2004. I was thinking about writing a Scheme function to carve up all of the durations into units of eighths, inserting the proper ties

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I wouldn't be surprised if you could find some program the took and existing MIDI file and added the swing feeling to it. However, I agree that it could be an interesting exercise in Scheme programming to do it from within LilyPond. /Mats David Greene wrote: Hi everyone, I searched the

Re: How to translate the Documentation?

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-07/msg00402.html for a related question. The manual is included in the source code. If you decide to go for the manual and not for the web pages, make sure to use the latest development version as a starting point, since the most recent

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-14 Thread Ted Walther
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:15:01PM -0500, David Greene wrote: I know only as much Scheme as is covered in the 2.9.17 manual, which is to say, not much. What is the recommended reference? SICP? I could do this in C++ with no problem, but Scheme is a very different beast. I'm not at all sure

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ted Walther wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:08:42AM +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: Citerar Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto with \partcombine. What exactly

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Greene wrote: Hi everyone, I searched the archives and found a few discussions about generating swing-feel MIDI from straight eighths Lily source but the most recent was from 2004. I was thinking about writing a Scheme function to carve up all of the durations into units of eighths,

seven-shape shape note system

2006-09-14 Thread Mark
I was wondering if Lilypond can do the seven-shape shape note system, or if it only does four (I only found the four-note system in the documentation). If it can do the seven-shape system, how does one do it? On a side note: I'm a big fan of the seven-shape system, but frankly, the four-note

Re: seven-shape shape note system

2006-09-14 Thread Ted Walther
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:52:18AM +, Mark wrote: I was wondering if Lilypond can do the seven-shape shape note system, or if it only does four (I only found the four-note system in the documentation). If it can do the seven-shape system, how does one do it? On a side note: I'm a big fan

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-14 Thread David A. Greene
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: if you're only interested in adding swing to the MIDI (not the notation), it will be a lot easier to multiply durations suitably, ie. do c8 c8 - c8*2/3 c8*1/3 Doing note splitting with correct ties would be a royal pain in the behind. But doesn't that get you the

hyphens and spacing lyrics

2006-09-14 Thread Daniel Boronka
I don't like hyphens disappearing in the lyrics. How can I force them to stay in the lyrics. Also the lyrics are too close, they almost run into one another like one long word. I'm sure there must be a spacing command.Daniel Boronka___ lilypond-user

Re: hyphens and spacing lyrics

2006-09-14 Thread Ted Walther
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:55:53PM -0700, Daniel Boronka wrote: I don't like hyphens disappearing in the lyrics. How can I force them to stay in the lyrics. Also the lyrics are too close, they almost run into one another like one long word. I'm sure there must be a spacing command. I

Re: hyphens and spacing lyrics

2006-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
- Original Message - From: Daniel Boronka To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:55 PM Subject: hyphens and spacing lyrics I don't like hyphens disappearing in the lyrics. How can I force them to stay in the lyrics. Also the lyrics

Adjusting spacing based on words

2006-09-14 Thread Jim Sloan
Hello! I am transcribing songs in Georgean language, where there may be long consonantal clusters, like “shentvis gautzirav sitsotskhles” Is it possible to have spacing honor the length of the words with this product? Here is an example. That ‘tskhles’ shows the problem; and it could