AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Philip Chinery
Hello, > For the first question, the basic principles are described in > Section "Vertical Spacing within a System" of the manual. I will have a look at that. > I have never worked with the chords myself but know that it's > possible to specify exceptions. I hope you have tried the > \german

AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Philip Chinery
> For the first question, the basic principles are described in > Section "Vertical Spacing within a System" of the manual. This seems to handle the wrong problem. Our problem ist not the space between two lines, but the space between the chord symbols and the line. Regards, Philip _

Re: Lilypond and TextMate

2006-11-26 Thread Christian Hitz
Hi Jacob, I used your Lilypond bundle for TextMate. While working an a few songs, I made some refinements to the bundle. See the attached patch. Thanks for your work. Christian lilypond.patch Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list

AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Philip Chinery
Sorry for mailing again into the list, but I have just discovered these properties: - chordRootNamer - chordNoteNamer The documentations says: "The chordNoteNamer property can be set to a specialized function to change this behavior. For example, the base can be printed in lower case." Now the

Slant of beams

2006-11-26 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I have an excerpt of my score, that doesn't look nice. The beams are horizontal in the first measure and I don't know why. The stem's length of D and C is much too small. To avoid a collision the slur has been blown up and looks like, ... "blown up". How can I change the beam's slope (or w

Re: AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
No, the mechanism to handle the spacing between two staves and between a stave and a line of chord names is exactly the same. /Mats Philip Chinery wrote: For the first question, the basic principles are described in Section "Vertical Spacing within a System" of the manual. This seems

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Arjan Bos wrote: The interesting thing from the video that I took home from it is that the engraving of a piece is dependent on the tempo: an Andante piece should be typeset more dense than an Allegro piece. Is it possible to embed this rule into Lilypond? Perhaps driven via a new identi

Multiple sections in ChoirStaff

2006-11-26 Thread Joseph Haig
I am trying to adapt the example in D.4.1 (SATB vocal score) of the user manual to allow for separate sections using different music and word. So, for example, the sections of the music should be deffined as: sopMusicPartA = \relative c'' { c4 c c8[( b)] c4 } sopWordsPartA = \lyricmode { hi

Some Questions

2006-11-26 Thread Cesar Penagos
Dear Lilyponders: I have installed the 2.10 version running under windows XP. I'm working in a large orchestral score. I have two questions: 1. I have installed Ghostview and Foxit pdf reader, Lilypond gently output the 2 formats, The .ps and the .pdf at the same time, taking a long time to wo

Re: Multiple sections in ChoirStaff

2006-11-26 Thread Geoff Horton
etc. Then, Part B should follow on from Part A (for example, a verse and chorus). I have managed to get the music to be placed correctly, but I have so far had no success getting the words of Part B appearing anywhere, let alone with the correct music. Is there an example anywhere showing this

Re: some questions

2006-11-26 Thread James Bailey
Thanks, I didn't even realise there was a 2.10 manual. Am 25.11.2006 um 11:31 schrieb Cameron Horsburgh: On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:26:02AM -0800, James Bailey wrote: Hello everyone I'm actually doing rather well with lilypond, with a few minor exceptions. One is that my staff names

thank you thank you thank you

2006-11-26 Thread James Bailey
I just got the documentation for 2.10 and it's bookmarked!! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Previously, I spent much time bookmrking the documentation. Now I don't have to. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/

Setting lyrics to an invisible note?

2006-11-26 Thread Geoff Horton
Working with reciting tones again Say I've got a line of text like this: The first words; now the second words I want the words all sung on the same pitch, and I want it shown only once, with the first words. But the harmonies change on the word "now", so I need a second, invisible, melodic

AW: AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Philip Chinery
So, if I get it right I should be able to kill the distance with this command: \overrideProperty #"NoteNames.VerticalAxisGroup" #'minimum-Y-extent #'(-0 . 0) But somehow this does not affect anything, am I doing something wrong here? > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Mats Bengtsson [ma

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2006-11-26 Thread libros
Good morning! Today I downloaded LilyPond, gave it a first try, and liked it a lot. So I will see if I can get to learn the how-to. I have started with my string quartet ( I still prefer to write with my own hands, but it is a nice way to practise) and with some didactical work for my pup

Bug(?) in german chord

2006-11-26 Thread Tomas Medek
Hi! At first: thx a lot for lilypond. It is awesome program :) But I have a question(bug message?): When I want to use chord names with \germanChords in my score and then I write for example c/e or d/fis it does not take any effect :(. I didn't find anything in documentation. Thank you for for

Re: AW: AW: Chord names: Spacing and naming problems

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Where did you find out about NoteNames? That has nothing to do with your situation. The following example shows how to reduce the spacing above the Staff context so that the chord names sit just on top of the G clef (which is the highest peak of the stave). The ChordNames dont' have any extra spac

Re: your mail

2006-11-26 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:28:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good morning! > > Today I downloaded LilyPond, gave it a first try, and liked it a lot. > So I will see if I can get to learn the how-to. I have started with > my string quartet ( I still prefer to write with my own hands, bu

Re: your mail

2006-11-26 Thread libros
Am 26/11/2006 um 22:32 schrieb Cameron Horsburgh: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:28:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! Today I downloaded LilyPond, gave it a first try, and liked it a lot. So I will see if I can get to learn the how-to. I have started with my string quartet ( I st

PDf and Ps outputs

2006-11-26 Thread Cesar Penagos
--- Mensaje Remitido --- De: "Cesar Penagos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" Asunto: Some Questions Fecha: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:58:18 -0600 Dear Lilyponders: I have installed the 2.10 version running under windows XP. I'm working in a large orchestral score. I have two qu

Re: Some Questions

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Cesar Penagos wrote: Dear Lilyponders: I have installed the 2.10 version running under windows XP. I'm working in a large orchestral score. I have two questions: 1. I have installed Ghostview and Foxit pdf reader, Lilypond gently output the 2 formats, The .ps and the .pdf at the same time, tak

Re: Slant of beams

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I agree that the horizontal beams don't look too well. LilyPond uses some clever mathematical algorithm to try to figure out what beam slope and stem lengths to use, in an attempt to find a solution that looks pleasing to the eye. However, it seems that it doesn't succeed completely in this part

Re: Setting lyrics to an invisible note?

2006-11-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you try to search for "invisible notes" or "transparent notes" or "hidden notes" in the index of the manual? /Mats Geoff Horton wrote: Working with reciting tones again Say I've got a line of text like this: The first words; now the second words I want the words all sung on the sa