How to initialize first page number to something other than 1?

2006-09-27 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
It appears that the "first-page-number" property is not working, here is an example: Note that the first page number in the odd/even mirrored footers always comes out as 1, even with setting first-page-number to 4. (v2.9.18) Is this still broken? (there are some old bug reports on it but those

Re: OOoLilyPond "unrecognized option"

2006-09-27 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi Thomas, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: LilyPond: unrecognized option "-b" LilyPond 2.8.6 on Linux knows this option. On windows this should not be different. Try to run LilyPond directly on the template to see weather there is a problem with your LilyPond installation. $ lilypond -b e

Re: Preferred way to set tempo marks?

2006-09-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As you have seen, LilyPond will automatically avoid collisions with with the note at the same position as the text script (as long as the text script and the note are in the same Voice context), however as you have also noted, LilyPond does not take into account if there are subsequent notes that

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > See the NEWS for version 2.8 or the section on "Objects connected to the > input" in the latest manual for version 2.9. Ah; I thought I'd seen it somewhere. ...will make the lower a smaller, then. Thanks! -- Arvid _

Sponsorship--Merge ties from multiple voices into one voice?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve D
Hello all-- I'm wondering if the following would be possible as a sponsored feature, if it cannot be done somehow already. I mainly write piano music. Often there are temporarily two or more voices in a measure or two, which then merge into one voice soon after. Sometimes (quite often, actually) t

Re: Preferred way to set tempo marks?

2006-09-27 Thread Michael Kiermaier
Hi Mats, thanks for your detailed answer. Unfortunally I am not very happy with the results I get. I am working on an orchestral piece. Voice-independent things (time signatures, special bar lines, repeats, rehersal marks and the tempo marks) go to the file global.ly. In the end I want to hav

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Holly Briscoe
Mats, Mats, Mats!!! THANK YOU!! I looked through the NEWS doc and found the \tweak function, which, as shown in the example, allows you to TWEAK (!) the note IN A CHORD structure. Yippee! Thanks again, Mats. Best regards, Holly >>Arvid Grøtting wrote: >> >> >>Overriding the notehead font siz

Previous Tie-bug resolved

2006-09-27 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
in version 2.9.19 the problem I mentionned in an early post regarding ties (ver. 2.9.16) seems to be resolved -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: Dynamics to Velocity

2006-09-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In contrast to the rest of LilyPond, the MIDI output support is fairly rudimentary and also above all, most of the aspects of how the MIDI file is generated is hard-coded into the program, so if you want to do this change, you would have to modify some of the C++ code. However, there are several

Dynamics to Velocity

2006-09-27 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
is it possible to have the dynamics rendered as velocity data instead of Volume data? (that can be useful for playing on some instruments i.e. digital pianos which do not read volume CC) -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com _

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Arvid Grøtting wrote: Overriding the notehead font size of only part of a chord doesn't work, at least not in a way I've found yet... See the NEWS for version 2.8 or the section on "Objects connected to the input" in the latest manual for version 2.9. /Mats -- ===

OOoLilyPond "unrecognized option"

2006-09-27 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, using OpenOfficeorg 2.0 with OOoLilyPond I get the following message: LilyPond: unrecognized option "-b" and nothing else. Anything I can do about this? Thanks, Thomas Windows XP LilyPond 2.8.6 ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: VOCAL Cue Note Problems

2006-09-27 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Holly Briscoe earthlink.net> writes: > The cue notes discussed in section 8.3.4 of version 2.8.6 of > the manual aren't exactly what I'm dealing with. The cue notes > I need are in the vocal parts, where an optional note is > printed in case the choir has enough voices to cover more than > the fo